I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

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

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

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.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

I’m a Christian by choice.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

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.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Sin is geographical.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.