Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.