There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.
I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.
Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.
True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick.
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
If one’s bowels move, one is happy, and if they don’t move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.