I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

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.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

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

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.