Consciousness and Self-Knowledge

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful '

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

I am only human, although I regret it.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it .

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.