The only way to live well is to feel intensely.

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.

Evil is inevitable, ' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.

They didn’t realize that if you take away the possibility of pain, and suffering, failure…you also take away the possibility of happiness, success, and joy." -The Old Man: DOMINATUS

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.