“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.