What do I know about life? What does a windmill know about the wind?

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.

God called you because He needs you

Life is a bag full of uncertainties for everyone.

[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.