Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.