Life is the childhood of our immortality.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

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

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.