The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.