Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

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.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Passions are the gales of life.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Law is mind without reason.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.