When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it, ” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.

I am sailing on a ship bound for life. a line in a song

If you want to kill giants, hang around a giant killer. It rubs off.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you