Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

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.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

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

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

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

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Man is by nature a political animal.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

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

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.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

A jug fills drop by drop.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.