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

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

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

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

Art is what appeals to the a priori.

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

What we know that we know forms our intellect; what we know that we do not know makes our faith; what we do not know that we know constitutes our emotions; and what we do...

Women prefer speaking to talking.

Bread cannot feed the addicts of beauty.

We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.

Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.

Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that...

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.

I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they are its masters.

Children and journalists need what they don’t need actually.

Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

Live to ask. Die to answer.

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.

Ideas can’t die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

All true are not truthful.

Artist is not human, but humanity.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.

Ah Life,Thou art a false truth!

The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.

Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.

We talk what we think but do what we believe.

Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.

Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

The ordeal is not that truth does not win; it is that it wins in the end.

Colours are nature gone wild.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

I’d love to be what I have been.

The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

Truth and reality are two different things. Truth is nothing more or less than an expression of reality as you perceive it, while reality being something totally independent of, and indifferent to how you express,...