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

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I create stars.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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 blind-folded fear.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

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

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?

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Change alone is unchanging.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.