All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

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

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

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

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

The art is long, life is short.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

States are not moral agents.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

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

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.