If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.