The Learner Always Begins By

The Soul Is Presupposed As A Ready-made Agent, Which Displays Such Features As Its Acts And Utterances, From Which We Can Learn What It Is, What Sort Of Faculties And Powers It Possesses -- All Without Being Aware That The Act And Utterance Of What The Soul Is Really Invests It With That Character In Our Conception And Makes It Reach A Higher Stage Of Being Than It Explicitly Had Before.

The Man Whom Philosophy Leaves Cold, And The Man Whom Real Faith Does Not Illuminate, May Be Assured That The Fault Lies In Them, Not In Knowledge And Faith. The Former Is Still An Alien To Philosophy, The Latter An Alien To Faith.

To Be Independent Of Public Opinion Is The First Formal Condition Of Achieving Anything Great.

The Valor That Struggles Is Better Than The Weakness That Endures.

The Person Must Give Himself An External Sphere Of Freedom In Order To Have Being As Idea.