Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

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

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

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

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

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

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I have wondered about time all my life.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

A useless life is an early death.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

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.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.