There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a sp...
Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been per...