A clean house is a sad house.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

I think Hanson is gonna be around for a long time. I think that they're three great, talented young men.

I'll hit them when it matters.

The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.