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

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

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

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

A lie cannot live.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

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

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

And yet it moves.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

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

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

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

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

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

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

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

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

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.