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

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

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.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

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

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

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

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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.