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

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

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.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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?

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

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

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Theology is unnecessary.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.