Life and Existence

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

Time discovers truth.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

This I know - that I know nothing.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.