Science is nothing but perception.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

States are not moral agents.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.