We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

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.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

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

Plato was a bore.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

When you give, it comes back to you.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

I have wondered about time all my life.

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.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.