All men's miseries derive 

from not being able 

to sit in a quiet room 

alone.

Argument is conclusive, 

but it does not remove doubt, 

so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, 

unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; 

it is all within yourself, 

in your way of thinking.

The foot feels the foot 

when it feels the ground.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Take, if you must, 

this little bag of dreams, 

Unloose the cord, 

and they will wrap you round.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment 

for which no remedy exists, 

unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Language is a social art.

To begin with, 

we put the proposition: 

pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

The evil that is in the world 

almost always comes of ignorance, 

and good intentions 

may do as much harm as malevolence 

if they lack understanding.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, 

it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The meeting of two personalities 

is like the contact of two chemical substances: 

if there is any reaction, 

both are transformed.

The words printed here are concepts. 

You must go through the experiences.

The job of a citizen 

is to keep his mouth 

open.