Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they're true.

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.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

I never took to Hollywood.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.