All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

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

An overflow of good converts to bad.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

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

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

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

A jug fills drop by drop.

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.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.