Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it’s peaceful, of course.

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

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

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

Man is a universe within himself.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

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

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

The art is long, life is short.

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

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

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

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

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

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Men want to make women happy.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

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

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

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

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

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

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.