If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

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

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

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

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

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

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Seeing is not always believing.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Sin is geographical.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.