Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

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

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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?

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

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

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Change alone is unchanging.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

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

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

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.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

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

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

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

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.

My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?