“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”

“I am my world.”

“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that thats a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fel...”

“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”