Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

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.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

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.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I like school and I like learning.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Our life is made by the death of others.

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

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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

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

From wonder into wonder existence opens.