The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Happiness is your birthright. Live it!

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.