The art is long, life is short.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

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

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

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.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

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

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

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?

My whole life is a theater piece.