The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

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.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Reality is a sliding door.