Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

Truth and untruth weave the seamless web of human nature.

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

Personally, I think they killed the bear because they were afraid of it. That s what people do, kill the things they re afraid of.

Rock and Roll's got to be like Jack Daniels. You've got to feel it burn.

I got the experience, I got the strength, I got the talent, I got the famous jump hook. That's my move.

Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.

Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals.