Philosophy has forgotten about children

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.