To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

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

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.