One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.