Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Every man is grave alone.