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

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

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

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.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

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

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

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

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

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.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.