There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Water’s never clumsy.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

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

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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

Young people can create beautiful things.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.