Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.

It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.

To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.

What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.

In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices, our lives in effect.

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked."In case one of them is stolen, " Marked said, as it were entirely normal.

I know when you say a lie... and now I bet 200$ that you lie.

Never stop fighting till the fight is done.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

The road goes on forever and the party never ends.

When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.