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

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

All men are equal before fish.

Life well spent is long.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Life is warfare.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

And yet it moves.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.