What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

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

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.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

By indignities men come to dignities.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

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

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Desire is the very essence of man.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

A jug fills drop by drop.