Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

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

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

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

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

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

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

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.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

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

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

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

Knowledge is power.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

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

Nothing cannot exist forever.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.