Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

There is no gambling like politics.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

A useless life is an early death.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Every man is his own hell.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

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

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

What goes up must come down.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

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

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.