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

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Character is destiny.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Information is not knowledge.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

There is no wealth but life.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Change alone is unchanging.