I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

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.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

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.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

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

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

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.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Judgments, 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.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

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

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.