Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

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.

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.