Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.