Query: How to contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting room; by remaining on one's balcony all a Sunday afternoon; by travelling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by queueing at the box-office of theatres and then not booking a seat.

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupid…

The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world -- and to pay attention to man.

Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.

The timeless moment. - The 'moment' has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.