It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.

Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

It takes two hands to clap.

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.