Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν: I searched myself.

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.