Evil is whatever distracts.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

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.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The Internet is a big distraction.

The brain is wider than the sky.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

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

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

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.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Saints need sinners.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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

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.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.