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?

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

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

My message is that God is a good God.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Christians are not limited to any church.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.