There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.