Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

‚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.

I was a thug.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

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

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

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.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.