The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

The only object of liberty is life.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.