A non-stationary 'time' cannot be 'grasped' and a stationary 'time' which can be grasped does not exist. How, then can one perceive time if it is not 'grasped'?

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Was I before a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly who dreams about being a man?

Never mistake motion for action.

There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval.

To know what questions may be reasonably asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for an answer where none is required, it not only brings shame on the propounder of the question, but may betray an incautious listener into absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the ludicrous spectacle of one man milking a he-goat and the other holding a sieve underneath.

The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Science discovers natural laws of the universe; it does not create them. Why then, is belief in God as the Creator of the universe considered contrary to science?