"A man who cannot weep is a man who cannot laugh."

"If I am to love God, I must be able to recognize him; if I am to recognize him, then he must be visible; if he is visible, then he is not God."

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."

"What the philosophers say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads 'Pressing Done Here.' If you were to take your clothes to be pressed, you would be foo…"

"The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."