No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

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.

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.

If words are the truth, what is living for?

Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you.

All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

What the orators want in depth they give you in length.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.