To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

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.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

I kinda live where I find myself.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I have wondered about time all my life.

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

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.