God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Justice is truth in action.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

God does not play dice.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Life is wasted on the living.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.