Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

You can’t do something forever.

Man is a universe within himself.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

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.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

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.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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

Our life is made by the death of others.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.