Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself.

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.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

Don't let anyone or anything to dull your sparkle.

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

I hope that not one of them ever wanna even think about boxing.