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

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

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

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

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

History should be written as philosophy.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?