As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I’m constantly thinking.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

There is nothing permanent except change.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

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

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

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

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

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.