Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as….

Every artist is an unhappy lover..

Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear ….

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations..

These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as….

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world..

A friend is, as it were, a second self..

There is no harm in repeating a good thing..

To some extent I liken slavery to death..

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is..

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome..

Sweet is the memory of past troubles..

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil..

The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have ….

Honor is the reward of virtue..

Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qua….

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization..

Peace is a natural effect of trade..

You cannot step into the same river twice..

In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour tha….

Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought ….