My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.

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.

If you can read this, then you have enough to be thankful for, because if you are still alive, you surely have a shot at making your dreams come true.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

The deepest reality you are aware of is the one from which you draw your power.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

I don't want to call it audacity, it's too good a term, to appoint Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as attorney general should damn well be respectful of John Lewis.

Commerce is the school of cheating.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.