“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
“Destiny gives a sense of familiarity.”
“Hume's 'is from ought': if you're a murderer should you be a murderer? If you're gay should you be gay?”
“Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.”
“If you can do and be anything anytime, everything is like nothing.”
“Live in a mode of being so meaningful that you won't notice you're there.”
“Philosophies necessary lead to dead end, stuck on one idea in a well lit room of that idea.”
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
“The word 'philosophy' means 'the love of wisdom.' Wisdom is the possession of knowledge, experience and good judgement. Yet knowledge itself is only information: wisdom is the use of knowledge to pursue the good life.”
“What if I told you we've already had this conversation and we will have it again in the future.”
“Why do bad things happen to good people?”
“Wisdom is the knowledge of eternal truths . Philosophy is love of knowledge.”
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
“Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they are not altered for the better designedly.”
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
“This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!”
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!”
“What is happiness? The feeling that power increases; that resistance is overcome.”
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live it once more and innumerable times more: and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!”
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
“Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“When you play games you must have limitations, if no limitations no games. The price of being is limitation or you can do or be whatever you like.”
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”