Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.