Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

No; 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?

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.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

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

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Life is just one damned thing after another.