“We talk about this and that. There’s no rest except on these branching moments.”
"Spring is Christ" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 38
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
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“To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.”
“One and Many,” p. 3
Do What You Will (1928)

Rejoinder when told that he couldn't talk about physics, because "nobody [at this table] knows anything about it."
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake", p. 310.
Quoted in Handbook of Economic Growth (2005) by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”
Source: I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me

“Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.”
Source: 1910s, A Book of Prefaces (1917), Ch. 4

“Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.”
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1976), p. 174
1970s

“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”