One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich NietzscheWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil GibranNature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David ThoreauMan is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
Billy GrahamThe spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Thomas CarlyleSome scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank ZappaThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillEvery fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI happen to believe there is evil in the world.
John KennedyMan is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.
Jurgen KloppExperience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin DisraeliContradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise PascalYou say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich NietzscheSin is geographical.
Bertrand RussellWorthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
SocratesLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil GibranUnbeing dead isn’t being alive.
E. E. CummingsNature is not human hearted.
Lao TzuPhilosophy begins in wonder.
PlatoI have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
DiogenesThe cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.
Christopher HitchensMan’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise PascalThere’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.
Alice WalkerThe optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert OppenheimerLet us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich NietzscheYou are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
Thich Nhat HanhScience is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. Robert OppenheimerBut by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi MinhNo; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand RussellWe are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
George Bernard ShawHappy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles DickensHealth is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao TzuOnly those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
Douglas MacArthurHabit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalNo man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. MenckenOnly when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Khalil GibranMany people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
Joyce MeyerIf I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSuch is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
VoltaireSuch as we are made of, such we be.
William ShakespeareI have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David ThoreauNon-violence is the article of faith.
Mahatma GandhiExistence precedes and rules essence.
Jean-Paul SartreMy three children have brought me great joy.
Stephen HawkingWe usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere 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.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye WestHe that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William ShakespeareYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da VinciThe courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas CarlyleIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis BaconI believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
John LennonMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
VoltaireThere is nothing good or evil save in the will.
EpictetusOnly that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch SpinozaI have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire