The optimist's hope and the pessimist's despair: reciprocal illusions.

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.

We're in the business of melancholiaand we are married to our work.

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

The wisest investments are made in good health intervention activities.

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

Bad's the best of us.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

The art of illusion is grace itself.