106 quotes
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
To covet truth is a very distinguished passion.
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911)
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.
The Sense of Beauty (1896)
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
Little Essays (1921)
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
The Sense of Beauty (1896)
Never since the heroic days of Greece has the world had such a sweet, just, boyish master.
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
Character and Opinion in the United States (1920)
In Aristotle the conception of human nature is perfectly sound; everything ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development.
History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.
The Sense of Beauty (1896)
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.
The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931)
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900)
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911)