Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.