I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

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

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

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.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

My life is a struggle.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

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

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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.