I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

The moment is the sole reality.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

If you want money, you must work to earn it.

Writers were a strange sort

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

Vince McMahon owns me.

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Great coders are today’s rock stars.