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

States are not moral agents.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Evil is whatever distracts.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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

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.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Theology is unnecessary.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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

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.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Forever is composed of nows.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.