“Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.”

“In that light, philosophy is not so much--or not simply--'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to the extent that it remains an incitement to it.”

“One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.”

“GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear”

“Everything he admired or loved had been the product of intense individualism. ...when had mass philosophies ever brought benefit or wisdom?”

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”