Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

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

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

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

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

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?

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Nature does nothing in vain.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

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

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

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

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.