There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

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.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Winning ‚Motor Trend‘ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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

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

A fool is wise in his eyes.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Who, being loved, is poor?

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Hell is other people.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Knowledge is power.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

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

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Plato was a bore.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

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