Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.