I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

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

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Real living is living for others.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

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.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

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

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Every man is his own hell.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Fear is the mother of morality.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.