Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

You just have to have a simple faith.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.