I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.
Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.
I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.
I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.