Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.