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.

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

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

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

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

Live to ask. Die to answer.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.

No exceptions to exceptions!

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

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...

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

Ah Life,Thou art a false truth!

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!

Love, endure, persist… Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

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.

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

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...

One mistake cannot justify another.

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

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

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

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

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, or even, perceive it. People differ only in their reference to reality; and this difference is not without its own...

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

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

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

Colours are nature gone wild.

Friends; the more, the less!

Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

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.

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

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

All true are not truthful.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Time is conscience of the universe.

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

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.

It’s not in the life, it’s in the living.

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.

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.

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

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

Men marry. Women wed.

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

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