When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

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

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

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

Nature is not human hearted.

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

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

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.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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