"The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy."

"We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics."

"A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more."

"The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory."

"Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them."

"Learn, or you'll be made to learn."

"Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell."

"Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans."

"One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them."

"A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine."

"Men marry. Women wed."

"The ordeal is not that truth does not win, it is that it wins in the end."

"Children are prophets of nature."

"Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many."

"We talk what we think but do what we believe."

"If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life."

"Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions."

"Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it."

"Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul."

"Truth is what reconciles thought and experience."

"Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride."

"Artist is not human, but humanity."

"It's not in the life, it's in the living."

"Life feels good if you don't know what it is."

"Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability."

"Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it."

"Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!"

"That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic."

"Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I think I---a man in totally unconditional pursuit of happiness, whatever it is, wherever it lies---am only supposed to consider which of them has more in common with life!"

"Runner up is champion of the losers."

"Women prefer speaking to talking."

"Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty."

"Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such."

"Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided."

"Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them."

"Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it."

"A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good."

"The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known."

"The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue."

"Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom."

"Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!"

"The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions."

"The intelligent have plans, the wise have principles."

"Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete."

"Don't quarrel with yourself, you'll only lose!"

"A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser."

"Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications."

"Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you."

"Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them."

"Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more."