The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.