What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.