Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

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

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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

I have wondered about time all my life.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

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

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Plato was a bore.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

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

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

History should be written as philosophy.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

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

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.