Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of practice. And, as one would expect, the feeling of guilt promotes hate and brazenness. Thus it seems that the more sublime the faith the more virulent the hatred it breeds.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.