"Our time, said Max Scheler, is the first in which man has become thoroughly and completely problematic to himself."

"Dissipation of mind, and length of time, are the remedies to which the greatest part of mankind trust in their afflictions."

"I don't know how to explain who I am or why I am writing to you except to say that I have just read your book, On Becoming a Person, ..."

"I would no longer be terming it a "state of empathy," because I believe it to be a process, rather than a state."

"To me it is meaningful to say that the substratum of all motivation is the organismic tendency toward fulfillment."

People with a soulful psychological temperament are receptive, reflective, often deliberate and slow.

"One’s education must first of all be directed to a thorough knowledge of the classics and an understanding of the teachings of the sages."

"Liberal education is literate education of a certain kind: some sort of education in letters or through letters."

"Balzac realised even from the early volumes the particular quality of Stendhal’s intelligence and his mastery of psychology."

"For the king and lord Osiris, they represent by an eye and a sceptre, and some even interpret the name as "Many-eyed"."

"Mankind is divided into three classes: Lovers of wealth; lovers of honour, and lovers of wisdom ; this last, being highest."

"The inaccessibility of the ends of the rainbow has encouraged the growth of countless legends."

"What Epicurus, who never travelled except when he was banished, sought in his own garden, our tourists seek abroad."

"My own sensibility reacts but little externally. It is occupied either by confused inward impressions, or by the ideas which strike me."

"Nothing could be more chimerical than the notion that Man is the same thing as the Economic Man."

"Maupassant's renown is universal, but his popularity is restricted. It is not difficult to perceive why."

"Nothing now remaining that can shatter that inner unity, nothing from without clinging to the authentic man."

"Initiatory death signifies the end at once of childhood, of ignorance, and of the profane condition."

"The archdemon of egoism leads us along the royal road to that ingathering which religious experience demands."

"For what did Don Quixote fight ? For Dulcinea, for glory, for life, for survival. "

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play."

"Going mad is the slowest and dullest business in the world."

"The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players; what is best in the planet; art and nature..."

Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but in the modern world they are not.