Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.