Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

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.

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

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

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

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

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

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

There is nothing permanent except change.

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

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

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

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.