The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

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.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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 always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

There is nothing permanent except change.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Time stays, we go.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

All men are equal before fish.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

My life has been very full.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

There is nothing so stable as change.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

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

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.