Nothing cannot exist forever.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The unexamined life is not worth living.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

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?

It is natural to die as to be born.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

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.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

There is nothing permanent except change.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

What was God doing before the divine creation?

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

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

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

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

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.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.