There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.