I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

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

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

History should be written as philosophy.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

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.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

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

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

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

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

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

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Knowledge is true opinion.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

A true man hates no one.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

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.

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.