We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

We moralize among ruins.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.

The object of the superior man is truth.

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.

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

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

History should be written as philosophy.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.