One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales.

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 is no security without freedom.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.