It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us...
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Realism is simply romanticism that has lost its reason. That is its reason for existing.
Truth can understand the error, but error cannot understand the truth.
The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
