He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

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

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

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.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

All men are equal before fish.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

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?

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Man is a universe within himself.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.