Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

Ruthless. That’s my girl.

You might be a redneck if the Home Shopping Channel operator recognizes your voice.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

I don’t believe in magic. I believe in hard work.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.