A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Nothing can come of nothing.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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.

Never find fault with the absent.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Forever is composed of nows.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

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

I have a collective sense of suffering.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

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.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Science is but an image of the truth.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.