It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

We are citizens of eternity.

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.