Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.