We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

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

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

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.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Nature is not human hearted.

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

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

All men are equal before fish.

Sin is geographical.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

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

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.