Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

From caring comes courage.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Sin is geographical.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Truth is what works.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.