When you give, it comes back to you.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Man is a universe within himself.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

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

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

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

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

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.

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.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

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

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.