It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Philosophy is the highest music.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

The soul is healed by being with children.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

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.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

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.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

I always wanted a family.