To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.