If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

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

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

My life is my argument.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Reality is a sliding door.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I am rather inclined to silence.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

Nature abhors annihilation.

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.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The art is long, life is short.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.