Life is nothing, if you feel nothing.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

I don't want all the silver and gold of the world, Dillon said. What I'm seeking is to know. I want to understand God and I want to know His wisdom.

Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well.

Not once in her life had Darcy wanted to thumb her nose at danger and rip the clothes off a man, but she was contemplating that very thing.

I love depressing movies and depressing books.

Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

I’d rather just think of everything positively.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

All men must marry much younger women