Error is always more busy than truth.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

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

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

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

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.