Law is mind without reason.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

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.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

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

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

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.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

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

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.