Life is warfare.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

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

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Many people say that this is not an easy issue, we cannot just say that this is how it is, it’s not black and white. But I say that this is black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don’t. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

By indignities men come to dignities.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

No man was ever wise by chance.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

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

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.