Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being complete in itself, is in no need to follow any of them. The appearance of disorder—or even order, in contrast—is when we observe something as a detached entity. Taken as a whole, the...

Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not… Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.

Religion is not what appears. It’s what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn’t always have something behind it.

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

Runner up is champion of the losers.

When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd.

An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil.

Limits are always extended, never broken.

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.

The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!

The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.

Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

Stupidity is not a behavior; it’s a religion. One can die for it!

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.

Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I think I—a man in totally unconditional pursuit of happiness, whatever it is, wherever it lies—am only supposed to consider which of them has more in common with...

Friends; the more, the less!

If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don’t believe the fact or it is not a fact.

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace.

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

Men marry. Women wed.

The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it’s when the idiot laughs at you.

Be at peace with yourself, or you’ll be at war with everyone.

A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.

Will is intention favored by emotions.

Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.

You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere philosophy, unless you follow it.

Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.

No exceptions to exceptions!

There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.

A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

World is so full of idiots that you can’t even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

Imagination is thinking beyond language.

Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don’t.

Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.