‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

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.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Finality is not the language of politics.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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

Words are loaded pistols.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

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

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.