Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

The human heart is the same the world over.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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

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.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Information is not knowledge.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

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

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Real living is living for others.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.