The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas JeffersonYou and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. TrumanI like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.
Bertrand RussellHabit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalYou can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest HemingwayWho would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Galileo GalileiMan can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar WildeI am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.
Pope FrancisWhy are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody AllenThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillWe are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
BuddhaFrom wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao TzuStupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert CamusKnowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry AdamsDo right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Lou HoltzKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil GibranSurely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
David HareNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EpicurusI don’t ever make moves under pressure.
Nipsey HussleYou say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich NietzscheThe value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAny religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.
Billy GrahamNo obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAll men by nature desire knowledge.
AristotleAll things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest HemingwayEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaI believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. LewisWisdom begins in wonder.
SocratesWhatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch SpinozaAnd whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin FranklinUpon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
Abraham LincolnThe brain is wider than the sky.
Emily DickinsonGod is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen KingWhere there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.
Joyce MeyerThere is no love of life without despair of life.
Albert CamusTis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander PopeMankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas JeffersonIf you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Brian EnoYou have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
Dr. SeussA perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard ShawWhatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Henry FordCertainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis BaconTolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel CastroThe fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo MachiavelliI think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
Matthew McConaugheyPolitics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
John F. KennedyIn the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur SchopenhauerReligion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan WattsMeans we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark TwainNon-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma GandhiI don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.
Terry PratchettEvery man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques RousseauI make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher HitchensTo every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac NewtonScience is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. Robert OppenheimerWho, being loved, is poor?
Oscar WildeWhen you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Bob Dylan