Science is nothing but perception.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

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.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

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.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

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.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

What you guys want, I’m for.

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

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

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.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Character is destiny.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

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