The unemotional life is not worth living.

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.

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ?

No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against. (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.