Real living is living for others.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

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

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

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

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

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

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

Truth is a pathless land.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.