I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Life is short, the art long.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

History should be written as philosophy.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

All men are equal before fish.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

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.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

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