Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

The more you know the less you need to say.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

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.‘

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

A person hears only what they understand.

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

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

If you can talk, you can write.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

There are no facts, only interpretations.