"The average man, says Shaw, can advance not a single reason for thinking that the earth is round."

"At this moment I do not believe in anything and I have no hope."

"As for the great problems, we have no advantage over our ancestors or our more recent predecessors: men have always known everything, at least in what concerns the Essential."

"Le rôle des périodes de déclin est de mettre une civilisation à nu, de la démasquer, de la dépouiller de ses prestiges et de l’arrogance liée à ses accomplissements."

"THE SO-CALLED science of psychology is now in chaos, with no sign that order is soon to be restored. "

"I believe that this feeling for the hearth, for the immemorial lares and penates, is infinitely stronger in Baltimore than in New York — that it has better survived there, indeed, than in any other large city of America."

"Those who are practising ‘stopping’ should retire to some quiet place and there, sitting erect, earnestly seek tranquilize and concentrate the mind."

"The psychic life-force, the libido, symbolizes itself in the sun or personifies itself in figures of heroes with solar attributes."

"Myth is certainly not an infantile phantasm, but one of the most important requisites of primitive life."

"The return to the simple life can be regarded as an unhoped-for piece of good fortune even though it demands considerable self-sacrifice and is not undertaken voluntarily."

"Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy."

"This tale begins when Siddhartha, the beautiful son of a Brahman priest, finds that though he makes everyone else happy, he is not happy himself."

"The more I considered, the more the man seemed akin to the horse."

"One does not soon learn the trade of life. That one may work out a true life requires more art and delicate skill than any other work."

"A great source of the richness of personality which constitutes Horace's chief appeal lies in his contemplative disposition."

"The one thing men have not learned to do is to stick up for their own instinctive feelings, against the things they are taught."

"YOU WRITE to me, my dear sir, requesting advice at one of the most momentous epochs in a young man’s life."

"The design in most men is one of conformity; here and there, in picked natures, it transcends itself and soars on the other side..."

"Le temps est de toutes les propriétés celle qu’il faut le plus garantir contre l’invasion."

"The aim of the wise man was no longer the plaudits of the masses but autarkeia, or self-sufficiency."

"Altogether, it was rather like being in a somewhat spartan study centre - or perhaps even more like being in a monastery."

In a manner of speaking, boredom is your window on time. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

"There is nothing in which people differ more than in their powers of observation."

"Falls and cascades are a great feature all through this country, as they are a marked feature in Wordsworth's poetry."