To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

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

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Man is a universe within himself.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

A useless life is an early death.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

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

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

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

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

Every man is his own hell.

God does not play dice.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.