Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

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.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The truth is lived, not taught.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Philosophy begins in wonder.