If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.
As a kid, I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?
When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.
Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.
A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps: 1. One decides the objective. 2. One considers the method. 3. One evaluates the method in relation to the objective.
We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden hunches and insights that cannot be denied. They feel more as if they emerge from inside and steer you from within like an inner guardian angel. . . . And, most amazing, it has never forgotten you, although you may have spent most of your life ignoring it.
I'd trapped myself in a script. . . . But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.
Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.