Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smart than you, who claim to know nothing.
I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing.
Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ’it doesn’t matter.
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.