Philosopher

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.