In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

I think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

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.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Information is not knowledge.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

And yet it moves.

There is no unique picture of reality.

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

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

A jug fills drop by drop.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!