Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

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

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

States are not moral agents.

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.

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.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Information is not knowledge.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

A useless life is an early death.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.