I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

We moralize among ruins.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

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.