Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.