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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

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

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

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

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

When you give, it comes back to you.

Nature is not human hearted.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

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

To be is to do.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

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.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Man is a universe within himself.

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

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

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.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.