The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. . . . In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
And things were back to normal except we were just friends.
Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer.
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.
I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.
Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.
I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.
Books are like tweets, except longer.
I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing. I can't really explain it, except maybe - and this is going to sound really stupid - when I would listen to a song it would make me more excited than anything else could.
I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.
A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite. . . what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?
I don't know a lot about New Zealand except that it is beautiful! All of my friends in bands who have toured there have said great things about it so I hope I can go perform there soon!
Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.