The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.

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 love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

Your lifestyle shows who your father is

O Life! thou art a galling load Along a rough a weary road to wretches such as I.

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.

How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.