A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.
Mahatma GandhiWe are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
Franz KafkaThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Carl SaganWhat we live by we die by.
Robert FrostJudgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich NietzscheWhatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Baruch SpinozaGo up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.
Muhammad AliThe fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard ShawThose who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Lao TzuWhatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William JamesA little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis BaconI object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma GandhiMemory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Alice MunroDoubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
VoltaireFor my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham LincolnMen seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas CarlyleBetween falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel JohnsonOnce you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul SartreI like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.
Alice MunroSo long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
Stephen HawkingI think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.
Madeleine AlbrightVirtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard ShawDon’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
Jim MattisAlthough God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.
Joyce MeyerHabit 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 PascalI have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
Benjamin FranklinSome cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar WildeThe eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas CarlyleShe believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul SartreThere will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
PlatoNothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus AureliusIf to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.
William ShakespeareWhat you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas CarlyleHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da VinciChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat one fool can understand, another can.
Richard P. FeynmanNo people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore RooseveltOut of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel KantNothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
Isaac NewtonBuddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan WattsI don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.
Stephen HawkingThe fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin DisraeliI am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
Pope FrancisScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand RussellSacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
Lou HoltzNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
PlatoI don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
Edmund HillaryIf particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
PlatoThe marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Hermann HesseAfter all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleIt is natural to die as to be born.
Francis BaconOne who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao TzuIf small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart TolleA trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
Blaise PascalNote, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Albert CamusI think God’s justice is making wrongs right.
Joel OsteenIt’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. LewisI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson