We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.