Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same but the medical practice changes.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books but no one can get anything out of life without God.

If philosophy is practice a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.