Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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?

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

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

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

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

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

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.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.