Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.