Daniel Klein Quotes

#1. I still take great pleasure in playing around with philosophical questions, the ones that [Bertrand] Russell is the first to admit have no unequivocal answers. . . . I guess this quality makes me a Cerebral Hedonist, although some would say it makes me a mental masochist.

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#2. With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill, but there is nothing compelling to do.

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#3. Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.

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#4. Oscar Wilde: In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the

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#5. I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness.

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#6. It's a bit embarrassing to admit, but everything that happens happens for no real reason.

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#7. This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.

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#8. Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

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#9. I wonder if I have a problem. I definitely have a tendency to seek spiritual inspiration from super-rational thinkers rather than from rabbis and priests and theologians.

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#10. I am not looking for a thing; I am searching for a spiritual experience.

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#11. When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.

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