I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.