There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some who went before them.

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light