When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

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.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.