Rivers are lucky. They can only move in one direction.

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.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Life is simply a vacation from the infinite

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious.