The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

There are men whose idea of life is tactic, who long for its continuation after death only because of their wish for permanence and not perfection; they love t…

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly add…

Here profits not To tell the whole truth with clear face unveiled. Often is man's best wisdom to be silent.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.