The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Reality is a sliding door.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Religions get lost as people do.

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.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

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?

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

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

I think the word rich is all relative.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

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

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

My life is my argument.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.