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

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Real living is living for others.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Due process should matter.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

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.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

States are not moral agents.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

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

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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.

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.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.