Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Fear is the mother of morality.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

I love life because what more is there?

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

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

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The art is long, life is short.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Life loves the liver of it.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.