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

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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

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

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

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.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

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

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

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.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

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

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.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

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

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.