I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye$$$ and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

To teach how to live without certainty$$$ and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation$$$ is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy$$$ in our age$$$ can still do for those who study it.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Fear is the main source of superstition$$$ and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

There are two motives for reading a book; one$$$ that you enjoy it; the other$$$ that you can boast about it.

All novelists know that crisis reveals character.

Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones$$$ but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked.

In autobiography$$$ as in all literature$$$ what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe.

You will see$$$ as time goes by$$$ said Ibn Rushd$$$ "that in the end it will be religion that will make men turn away from God. The godly are God's worst advocates."

Everything is relative$$$ one man's absolute belief is another man's fairy tale.