Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

What goes up must come down.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Change alone is unchanging.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

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.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

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

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

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

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

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

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

Society is at odds with itself.

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

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.