Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.