“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Kings are the slaves of history.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you – unless you actually fail the test?

Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Examining this water…I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Cross-border trade is part of a single production process, and while apparently the Trump administration will seek to re-examine elements of that production platform, it is what it is and won’t be easily dismantled.

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.