Trees, O trees, why can't you hold on to your leaves?

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.

A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster

He'd been born into duty. As a demigod descendant, a death reaper, his first commitment was to serve the god of the underworld. Hades, as a conduit to usher evil souls to hell.

There is an end to everything.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.

For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.

Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.