Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

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

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Where there is love there is life.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Truth is a pathless land.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Every man is his own hell.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

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.

To be is to do.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

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

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.