The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

Lynn, my wife, would very much appreciate if I had a talent for anything besides music.

Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.