Nothing cannot exist forever.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

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.

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.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

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?

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

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.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

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

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

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

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.