We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.