The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

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

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I’m an emotional person.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

God does not play dice.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I think and that is all that I am.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.