The suicide? What would he have done if death did not exist?

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.

So you would kill Old Ireland?” Anna Livia said. “You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn’t be.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Love well, be loved and do something of value.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.

This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam’s sin, but because they are not Adam’s descendants, they can’t have salvation.

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Even she agreed that a woman had a right to chocolate.

To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.