Our Knowledge Is A Torch Of Smoky

Each Religion, By The Help Of More Or Less Myth, Which It Takes More Or Less Seriously, Proposes Some Method Of Fortifying The Human Soul And Enabling It To Make Its Peace With Its Destiny.

That Fear First Created The Gods Is Perhaps As True As Anything So Brief Could Be On So Great A Subject.

A String Of Excited, Fugitive, Miscellaneous Pleasures Is Not Happiness; Happiness Resides In Imaginative Reflection And Judgment, When The Picture Of One's Life, Or Of Human Life, As It Truly Has Been Or Is, Satisfies The Will, And Is Gladly Accepted.

Wisdom Comes By Disillusionment.

A Fanatical Imagination Cannot Regard God As Just Unless He Is Represented As Infinitely Cruel.