Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I believe in being an innovator.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.