Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Non-violence is the article of faith.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
God has entrusted me with myself.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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