Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful. . . was a mark of the Greek spirit.
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.
Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.
My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.
I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.
I just want to thank [my wife] for loving me where I was weak.
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.