Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

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

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Life is warfare.

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.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

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

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.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Plato was a bore.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.