104 Quotes by Neel Burton

The best books are those that tell you what you already know, but didn't know that you knew.

It's interesting how having things to do is largely a matter of whether you think you have things to do.

Laughter is wise, because it broadens our perspectives, but gratitude is wiser still, because it broadens our perspectives beyond ourselves.

Our imagination is so poor that we haven’t even imagined what it would be like to have imagination.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Philosophy gives life to life.

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

There seems to be an important relationship between language and thought: I often speak—or write, as I am doing right now—to define or refine my thinking on a particular topic, and language is the scaffolding by which I arrive at my more subtle or syncretic thoughts.