Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.