The brain is wider than the sky.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

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

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

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

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

No man was ever wise by chance.

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