I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.