Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.