Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

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.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Nature does nothing in vain.

The good is the beautiful.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.