Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Truth is what works.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

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.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

When you give, it comes back to you.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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

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.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

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

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

We all have the duty to do good.

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.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.