There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.