We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

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.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Nature does nothing in vain.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

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

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

There is so much that people take for granted.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

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.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.