Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Law is mind without reason.

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

All generalizations are false, including this one.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Error is always more busy than truth.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

The less you know, the more you believe.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

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

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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.

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.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Reality is a sliding door.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The brain is wider than the sky.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.