Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Be happy for what you have not for what you should have.

Family is a place where love never ends.

You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.

What you want to see, allow it and let it be.

We…sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn’t good enough.

You will achieve great success when you find happiness.

For a lack of education, a child’s future may hold no fortune.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Drink the ecstasy of life and write about it.

A heart full of love and a joyful smiling face is the best makeup for life.

All the world’s a stage.

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality....

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

For success, have a laser-like, purpose-oriented focus, and persistently go toward it.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don’t know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what...

An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.

A fool thinks he is always right, a wise person always doubts himself.

{The resolution of the surviving members of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whom Robert Ingersoll was the commander of, at his funeral quoted here}Robert G. Ingersoll is dead. The brave soldier, the unswerving patriot, the true...

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Pactum serva” – “Keep the faith

The perishableness of life…imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

If you alone found out what the lie was, then you’re probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great...

Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

When gratitude begins, then life finds the abundance and suffering ends.

Humanity is its own worst enemy. What chance do any other species have?Survival is the parchment upon which the Law of Nature is inscribed.And what I’ll find was always mine.And what I’ll say, I’ve said...

philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different meanings through the years, and from one school or movement to another.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Be kind to all and trust all. If you do so, only a few will break your trust.

Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants.

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Plus d’un qui n’a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.

Success is not the final destination but the stepping stone for the next.

The modern mind is like the eye of a man who is too tired to see the difference between blue and green. It fails in the quality that is truly called distinction; and,being incapable of...

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to...

A life with simplicity and joy is the best statement of success.

We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.

So walk, or run if you can to your dreams. It doesn’t matter if it’s far or near. You can pause along the way but never stop, OK? Then hug it when you finally meet...

It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way.

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term ‘genius’ when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or...

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all...

Nothing is impossible . Its just that it has not been done yet. maybe its waiting for you to do it. Thats why its not done yet. So stop sitting and not doing anything. On...

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

Everyone has a purpose of life. My purpose of life is to serve humanity.

The universe is not a thing that is, it is not a thing at all. It is the very action of its going. It is, in fact, its own dissolves and our lives – the...

Es gibt zwei menschliche Hauptsünden, aus welchen sich alle andern ableiten: Ungeduld und Lässigkeit. Wegen der Ungeduld sind sie aus dem Paradiese vertrieben worden, wegen der Lässigkeit kehren sie nicht zurück. Vielleicht aber gibt es...

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.