Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Fear is exciting for me.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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

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.

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

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

God does not play dice.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.