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

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

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

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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?

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

A useless life is an early death.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

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

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.