I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants

The more challenges life deals us, the more scars experiences give us, the higher we go, the better we get.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.