The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

Life is given us as a passion.

In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.