The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

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.

In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.