It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Act as if you are, and you will become such.
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.
Faith is the force of life.
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'
When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.