Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Plato was a bore.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Time is bunk.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.