Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Law is mind without reason.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

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

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.