“Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.”

As quoted in The Book of Unusual Quotations (1957) by Rudolf Franz Flesch, p. 122.

The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)

Source: Problems and theories of philosophy, 1949, p. 152, as cited in Łukasiewicz, 2016.

Part Four, Ch. V (pp. 237-238)
Source: The Good Soldier (1915)
Context: It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.
Is there any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whom they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in coolness? Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people — like the lives of the Ashburnhams, of the Dowells, of the Ruffords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows?

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas

“The Death of Politics”, Playboy (March, 1969).

Asinaria, Act III, scene 3, line 54 (line 644 of full Latin text).
Variant translation: Do you then yourself do that which you would be suggesting to us to do. (translator Henry Thomas Riley, 1912)
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)