Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.