What good is a song that doesn't break your heart?

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.

the golden eternity is { }

Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness.

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

War is a terrible, bloody thing.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.