Hell is other people.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

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

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Science is nothing but perception.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

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

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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

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.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

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

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.