Being is the great explainer.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

When you give, it comes back to you.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

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

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Theology is unnecessary.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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

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.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

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.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The art is long, life is short.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Reality is a sliding door.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.