Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.

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.

Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all, give my Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples. Do that and you will see a man contented.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease.

I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.

I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.