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| Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality | | Parents | |
| People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another | | Uncategorized | |
| Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself | | Uncategorized | |
| Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. | | Uncategorized | |
| Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise | | Philosophy | |
| Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. | | Uncategorized | |
| Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. | | Progress | |
| Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual | | Uncategorized | |
| Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. | | Generosity | |
| Reason and happiness are like other flowers -- they wither when plucked. | | Uncategorized | |
| Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. | | Religion | |
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| Sanity is a madness put to good use. | | Sanity | |
| Sanity is a madness put to good uses | | Sanity | |
| Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. | | Common sense; Science | |
| Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca | | Skepticism | |
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| Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. | | Uncategorized | |
| Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. | | Uncategorized | |
| That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. | | Uncategorized | |
