Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

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.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

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

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

God does not play dice.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

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.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.