I have wondered about time all my life.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

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

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

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

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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

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

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

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

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

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.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

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.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

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

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.