Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

We might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.

Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·

I married beneath me. All women do.

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.