To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Law, without force, is impotent.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Our life is made by the death of others.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I love being in a courtroom.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.