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

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Truth is what works.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

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

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

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

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

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.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

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.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

What goes up must come down.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.