Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

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