Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

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

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

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

Being is the great explainer.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

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

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I do not pilfer victory.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

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

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

When you give, it comes back to you.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

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.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.