The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.