Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Money can’t buy life.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

To be is to do.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Everything isn’t political.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Words are loaded pistols.

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.