Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.