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?

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

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

Life is warfare.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

I just want to lobby for God.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

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

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

You just have to have a simple faith.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?