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.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

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

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

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

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?

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

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.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Being is the great explainer.

Truth is what works.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Science is nothing but perception.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

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

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

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.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.