When you give, it comes back to you.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

What we live by we die by.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

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.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

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

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

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

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

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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 are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

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

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.