I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.