In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

It is true I swim in a perpetual sea of sex but the actual excursions are fairly limited.

It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world—it’s the American way of looking at things.

It’s a curse. Yes, it’s a flame. It owns you. It has possession over you. You are not the master of yourself. You are consumed by this thing.

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.