The Hunter For Aphorisms On Human Nature

My External Sensations Are No Less Private To My Self Than Are My Thoughts Or My Feelings. In Either Case My Experience Falls Within My Own Circle, A Circle Closed On The Outside... The Whole World For Each Is Peculiar And Private To That Soul.

Metaphysics Is The Finding Of Bad Reasons For What We Believe On Instinct.

It Is By A Wise Economy Of Nature That Those Who Suffer Without Change, And Whom No One Can Help, Become Uninteresting. Yet So It May Happen That Those Who Need Sympathy The Most Often Attract It The Least.

Religion Is Rather The Attempt To Express The Complete Reality Of Goodness Through Every Aspect Of Our Being.

The Propriety Of Some Persons Seems To Consist In Having Improper Thoughts About Their Neighbors.