The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

There is no defeat except for those who give up.

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.