No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

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

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

What goes up must come down.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

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

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

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.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.