A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

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

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Real living is living for others.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

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.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

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.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Life is wasted on the living.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Faith never makes a confession.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Words are loaded pistols.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

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.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Law is mind without reason.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.