No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.

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 laugh, but you haven't seen me in a tux. Or maybe you don't like broad-shouldered guys with muscular chest and washboard abs?

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.