The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high

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.

Perhaps death is just a big lie.

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were.

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.