There is nothing so stable as change.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Change alone is unchanging.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

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

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Man is a universe within himself.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

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

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.