Self

"If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another man should conquer himself,
this would be the greater victory, because the greatest victory is over oneself..." - The Dhammapada

"Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action." - J. Krishnamurti

"He who wishes his own happiness by causing pain to others is not released from hatred,
being himself entangled in the tangles of hatred." - The Dhammapada

"The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance." - Seth

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." – Confucious

“To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.” - Confucius

Mathematics

"Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine." - Kurt Gödel

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater." - Albert Einstein

Peace

"The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life." - J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

"Not understanding yourself is not understanding the truth. That is why there is fighting among ourselves. If all the people in the world understood themselves, they would attain the Absolute. Then the world would be at peace."

"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved through understanding." - Albert Einstein

"War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien ideas and alien cultures, who know that all revolutions begin within and that you cannot impose your brand of enlightenment on anyone else." - Marilyn Ferguson

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another." - Thomas Merton

Relationships

"Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win..." - Robert Grudin, "Time and the Art of Living"

Truth

"One word of the truly inspired answers a hundred questions and avoids a thousand unnecessary words of explanation."

"One sentence of the Doctrine, which brings happiness to a person who understands,
is better than one hundred stanzas consisting of meaningless words." - The Dhammapada

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

Science

"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone." - Albert Einstein

"Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualisation. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary." - Albert Einstein

"It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand only made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism by something else, even if it be a scientific one. Science in its catechism has but few apodictic precepts; it consists mainly of statements which it has developed to varying degrees of probability. The capacity to be content with these approximations to certainty and the ability to carry on constructive work despite the lack of final confirmation are actually a mark of the scientific habit of mind." - Sigmund Freud

"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large the scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, noone doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature." - Albert Einstein

"Science is but an image of the truth." - Francis Bacon

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein

String Theory - "We still don't know what the fundamental theory behind string theory is, but judging from all of these relationships, it must be a very interesting and rich theory, one where distance scales, coupling strengths and even the number of dimensions in spacetime are not fixed concepts but fluid entities that shift with our point of view."

Wisdom

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim

"We put thirty spokes to make a wheel;
but it is on the hole in the centre that the use of the cart hinges.
We make a vessel from a lump of clay;
but it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
We make doors and windows for a room;
but it is the empty spaces that make the room livable.
Thus, while existence has advantages, it is the emptiness that makes it useful." - Lao Tzu

"To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance,
and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others,
by expressing in the world of forms, truth, love, purity and beauty
- this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth.
All other happenings, incidents and attainments can,
in themselves, have no lasting importance." - Meher Baba

"Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two." - Buddha

"Speech is the sign of living, but silence is life itself."

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville

"The higher you want to go, the deeper your roots have to be."

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Study the past if you would define the future.” – Confucius

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.” - Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Creativity

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

"Logic brings you from A to B, imagination brings you everywhere." - Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein

"What is now proved was once only imagined." - William Blake

"Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs." - Seth

"The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." - Robert Olson

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." – Scott Adams

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything." – George Lois

"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit." – Ansel Adams

Subjective truth

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein

Soen-sa said, "Four blind men went to the zoo and visited the elephant. One blind man touched its side and said, 'The elephant is like a wall.' The next blind man touched its trunk and said, 'The elephant is like a snake.' The next blind man touched its leg and said, 'The elephant is like a column.' The last blind man touched its tail and said, 'The elephant is like a broom.' Then the four blind men started to fight, each one believing that his opinion was the right one. Each only understood the part he had touched; none of them understood the whole."

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." – Buddha

"γνώθι σ'εαυτόν" - "Know thyself"

"There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path."

Reality

"Define reality for yourself before someone does it for you."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain." - Morpheus

"Remember also that if physical reality is an illusion, it is an illusion caused by an even greater reality.
The illusion itself has a purpose and a meaning." - Seth

"You are like children with a game, and you think that the game is played by everyone. Physical life is not the rule. Identity and consciousness existed long before your earth was formed. You suppose that any personality must appear in physical terms. Consciousness is the force behind matter, and it forms many other realities besides the physical one. It is, again, your own viewpoint that is presently so limited that it seems to you that physical reality is the rule and mode of existence." - Seth

"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even in this very room. You can see it when you look out the window or when you turn on your television. You feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." - Morpheus

"I want to know god's thoughts... The rest are details." - Albert Einstein

"Great souls are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be and not to be arise mutually." - Lao, Tao Te Ching

"Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its.... beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious." - Agent Smith

"Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them." - J. Krishnamurti

"The Matrix is a system Neo, and that system is our ennemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds we are trying to save. Until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our ennemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many are so hopelessly dependent on the system, they'll fight to protect it." - Morpheus

"You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart." - Seth

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - B. Fuller