No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

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

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

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

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.