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

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

States are not moral agents.

Theology is unnecessary.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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

Plato was a bore.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.