I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?