One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

The moderns do not realize modernity.