The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Science is nothing but perception.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Theology is unnecessary.

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.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.