You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do.

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.

You need to get out of the nest if you ever want to fly.

The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.

Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.

Crazy people don't know they're crazy. I know I'm crazy, therefore I'm not crazy, isn't that crazy?

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.

there's no defense except all the errors made

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I just didn't give an answer!

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.