It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.