The fog eventually clears itself.

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.

Jingle bells, they ring in hell, never to be merry, they'll burn, they'll burn, please my dear be weary

Am I shallow? she asks the mirror. Yes, I am shallow. The sun shines on the ripples where it's shallow. Deep is too dark.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.

I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

Every exploration is an appropriation.