One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.