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

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

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

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

I am the freest author in the world.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

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

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

The mainstream is always under attack.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

A useless life is an early death.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.