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It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911)
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
The Life of Reason (1905)
Whenever a nation is converted to Christianity, its Christianity, in practice, must be largely converted to paganism.
Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion (1913)
The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911)
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
Every moment celebrates obsequies over the virtues of its predecessor.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Life of Reason (1905)
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble, it must remain rare, if common, it must become mean.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Since barbarism has its pleasures, it naturally has its apologists.