You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy.

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Always, worlds within worlds.

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.