We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.