If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

When you give, it comes back to you.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

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.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

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.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

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.