It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

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.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

We moralize among ruins.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Science is nothing but perception.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.