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

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

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.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

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

Nature is not human hearted.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

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.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Non-violence is the article of faith.

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

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

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

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

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

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.

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

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

When you give, it comes back to you.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.