Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

The choice to believe in something bigger than yourself is the beginning of the transformational mastery of your success~

The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me.

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!