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

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Only the shallow know themselves.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I already am a product.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

The little man is still a man.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.