One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others.

Be Free!, That I want to Be !

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.