The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

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.

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 words are the truth, what is living for?

By changing your perception, awareness, and actions you create yourself again and again.

Tchingis, if you determine this is to be so, who can withstand you? You are poetry after an ugly day, and heal wounds I didn't know I had.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous and doing what you love to do, you are successful.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.