“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.”

Kings are the slaves of history.

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

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.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

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

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible.

Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.

What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.