Hell is other people.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Truth is a pathless land.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Change alone is unchanging.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

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

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

Theology is unnecessary.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

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

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

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

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

There is nothing permanent except change.

You just have to have a simple faith.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.