Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

What keeps me going is goals.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

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

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

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?

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

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

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

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