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

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

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

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.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

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

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

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

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

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.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

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.

To live is to think.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Religions get lost as people do.

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

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

History should be written as philosophy.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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 first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

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

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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 now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.