To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.

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.

Forever is a really long time.

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.