Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.