Life is warfare.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

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

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

By indignities men come to dignities.

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

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

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

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

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

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

An unused life is an early death.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The art is long, life is short.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life must be lived as play.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.