Silence stands between the trees, waiting for the wind's roar.

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.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too