Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.