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

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

Science is but an image of the truth.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

Information is not knowledge.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Science is nothing but perception.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

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

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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

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.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.