Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

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

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

youth is a marvelous garment

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.