Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

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

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Life must be lived as play.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

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

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

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

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

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

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

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

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.