It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be…

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

The general notions about human understanding: which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly…

'The Pacific Way ... is not a thing or state; it is the working out of a process. (But) ... the most important things in life are the most difficult to measure…

Chinese were born, it seemed to me, with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, …