Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Knowledge is true opinion.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

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.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

There is nothing so stable as change.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

The truth is lived, not taught.