Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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

Plato was a bore.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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

Change alone is unchanging.

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

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

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

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

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

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.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.