There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Nature abhors annihilation.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Money can’t buy life.

Children are all foreigners.

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.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.