I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.
Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.
Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.
The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey. " When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.