He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

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

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

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

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

It is natural to die as to be born.