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

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

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

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Nothing can come of nothing.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.