May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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.

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

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

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

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

I do not pilfer victory.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

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

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.