The only good is knowledge 

and the only evil is ignorance.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, 

is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

Sunshine is delicious, 

rain is refreshing, 

wind braces us up, 

snow is exhilarating; 

there is really no such thing as bad weather, 

only different kinds of good weather.

Love 

in its essence 

is spiritual fire.

Love is a canvas 

furnished by nature 

and embroidered by imagination.

All action results from thought, 

so it is thoughts that matter.

Life is not an exact science, 

it is an art.

Religion is part of the human make-up.

It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. 

Religion was our first attempt at literature, 

the texts, 

our first attempt at cosmology, 

making sense of where we are in the universe, 

our first attempt at health care, 

believing in faith healing, 

our first attempt at philosophy.

A work of art is 

above all 

an adventure of the mind.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. 

Learn as if you were to live forever.

Do you not see 

how necessary a world of pains and troubles is 

to school an intelligence 

and make it a soul?

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, 

since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, 

whereas those of history are singulars.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, 

there is rapture in the lonely shore, 

there is society where none intrudes, 

by the deep sea, 

and music in its roar; 

I love not Man the less, 

but Nature more.

My atheism, 

like that of Spinoza, 

is true piety towards the universe 

and denies only gods fashioned by men 

in their own image, 

to be servants of their human interests.

It is wrong always, 

everywhere, 

and for everyone, 

to believe anything 

upon insufficient evidence.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The best way to find out 

if you can trust somebody 

is to trust them.

Life isn't about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself.

The key is to keep company 

only with people who uplift you, 

whose presence calls forth your best.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Time flies over us, 

but leaves its shadow behind.

To himself everyone is immortal; 

he may know that he is going to die, 

but he can never know that he is dead.

The aim of life is appreciation; 

there is no sense in not appreciating things; 

and there is no sense in having more of them 

if you have less appreciation of them.

The roots of all goodness 

lie in the soil of appreciation 

for goodness.

Words ought to be a little wild, 

for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

The individual has always had to struggle 

to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. 

If you try it, 

you will be lonely often, 

and sometimes frightened. 

But no price is too high to pay 

for the privilege of owning yourself.

All men's miseries derive 

from not being able 

to sit in a quiet room 

alone.

Argument is conclusive, 

but it does not remove doubt, 

so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, 

unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; 

it is all within yourself, 

in your way of thinking.

The foot feels the foot 

when it feels the ground.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Take, if you must, 

this little bag of dreams, 

Unloose the cord, 

and they will wrap you round.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment 

for which no remedy exists, 

unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Language is a social art.

To begin with, 

we put the proposition: 

pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

The evil that is in the world 

almost always comes of ignorance, 

and good intentions 

may do as much harm as malevolence 

if they lack understanding.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, 

it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The meeting of two personalities 

is like the contact of two chemical substances: 

if there is any reaction, 

both are transformed.

The words printed here are concepts. 

You must go through the experiences.

The job of a citizen 

is to keep his mouth 

open.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, 

but quickly to see how to make them good.

The limits of my language 

means 

the limits of my world.

I hate war 

as only a soldier who has lived it can, 

only as one who has seen 

its brutality, 

its futility, 

its stupidity.