In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

That government is best which governs least.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

Reality is a sliding door.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

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

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

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

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

The art is long, life is short.