Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

What we live by we die by.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

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

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

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

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.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

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.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

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.

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

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.