The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more.

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.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

Can one man's madness be another's real life?

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

This was a no-brainer, ... When it came down to it, I said to myself, Hey, you can still play, you can still play at a high level and you still enjoy playing. Why not play?

When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.