All our prayers can't keep a single leaf from falling.

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.

Customer is king. I am his treasurer.

I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.

How does somebody know what they want if they haven't even seen it?

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations.

We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.