In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

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

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

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.

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.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Religions get lost as people do.

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

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

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

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.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

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

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

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

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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