Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Fear is the mother of morality.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we’ve got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

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

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

It is right to give every man his due.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

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.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

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

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.