Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

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.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

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

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

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

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

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

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

I’m nobody, who are you?

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

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

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

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

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

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Words are loaded pistols.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.