A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.