No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

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?

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

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

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

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

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

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.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

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

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

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

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.