Error is always more busy than truth.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

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

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Who, being loved, is poor?

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

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

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Every man is his own hell.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

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

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

We moralize among ruins.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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.

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.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.