The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

Being in the pop group Eternal gave me the most wonderful opportunity to travel the world, and I have visited some spectacular countries.

The monster London laugh at me.

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

I like that free spirit where you can laugh together and argue. I love a writer's room.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.