There are no facts, only interpretations.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

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.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Live truth instead of professing it.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

Money can’t buy life.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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

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

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.