To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.

You have nothing to lose, only to live.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up what remains.

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.