But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Anyway because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis at any time of night or day.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

There are no ordinary moments.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

Take it easy, but take it.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Suffering, she said. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

She said, It's not life or death, the labyrinth.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Things do not change; we change.

I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test? ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.