The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact....

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its...

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own...

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.