In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.

Choose a self and stand by it.