We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

Language was invented to ask questions.

Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.