Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said:"I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a little shop anywhere where they cut hair properly? I keep on having my hair cut, but it keeps on growing again."One of the tall men looked at him with the air of a pained naturalist.

it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

I have been asked to explain what I meant by saying that "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." I have no notion when I said it or where I said it, or even whether I said it; in the sense that I do not now remember ever saying it at all. But I do know why I said it; if I ever said it at all.

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.

Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.