“The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.”

“Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”

“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”

“The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowledge into different departments. The over-development of logical thinking and specialization, with its technical phraseology, has brought about the curious fact of modern civilization, that philosophy has been so far relegated to the background, far behind politics and economics, that the average man can pass it by without a twinge of conscience. The feeling of the average man, even of the educated person, is that philosophy is a "subject" which he can best afford to go without. This is certainly a strange anomaly of modern culture, for philosophy, which should lie closest to men's bosom and business, has become most remote from life. It was not so in the classical civilization of the Greeks and Romans, and it was not so in China, where the study of wisdom of life formed the scholars' chief occupation. Either the modern man is not interested in the problems of living, which are the proper subject of philosophy, or we have gone a long way from the original conception of philosophy.”

“So long as man is man, variety will still be the flavor of life.”

“Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.”

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”