A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Most lead lives at worst so painful$$$ at best so monotonous$$$ poor and limited that the urge to escape$$$ the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments$$$ is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness$$$ it's also science. Science is dangerous$$$ we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

The course of every intellectual$$$ if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough$$$ ends in the obvious$$$ from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Great is truth$$$ but still greater$$$ from a practical point of view$$$ is silence about truth.

Liberties aren't given$$$ they are taken.

Consistency is contrary to nature$$$ contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.

England has two books$$$ the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare$$$ but the Bible made England.