If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

For time is the longest distance between two places.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

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

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

I am the freest author in the world.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.