Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

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.

Love as is love is the oxygen of life.

He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

I used to stand on the Kop when I was here in 1969. The atmosphere and passion on the pitch as well as the terraces was intoxicating and Liverpool became part of me from that day on.

I wanted to fight to get into the front. I was just hungry to do it.

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.