The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

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.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

God does not play dice.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

All art is quite useless.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

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.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

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

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Study men, not historians.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Man is a universe within himself.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.