Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

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.

There's an old adage, " he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

Make love your religion, and all the citadels of man-made religious conflicts shall disappear from the face of earth once and for all.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

I'd rather entertain people than offend them.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.