I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

Wisdom of the Ages "News People" Always joking around and happy. I guess that proves that ignorance really is bliss.

Miss. My. Wife.

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Don't disparage America's military.

I spent a week there one afternoon.

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.