The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Law is mind without reason.

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

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Freedom lies in being bold.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Freedom is not enough.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

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

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.