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.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

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