Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Where thou art, that is home.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Character is destiny.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.