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

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.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

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.

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

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

A useless life is an early death.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

The art is long, life is short.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Real living is living for others.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

To live is to think.

Only the educated are free.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.