I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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

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

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Change alone is unchanging.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.