Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

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

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

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

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

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

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Plato was a bore.

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

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

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.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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