At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.