Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

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

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to ‚Be Prepared‘ to meet them.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Change alone is unchanging.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

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.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Law is mind without reason.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

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

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.