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.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

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.

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.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.