What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Aldous HuxleyIt’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
Terry Pratchett‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.
Jordan PetersonMy philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
Anthony HopkinsMore gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon HillWhat a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard ShawMysteries are not necessarily miracles.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSuch is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
VoltaireKnow then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander PopeThey tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur SchopenhauerAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert EinsteinI had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis BaconI still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Friedrich NietzschePrayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma GandhiAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William JamesNo notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
AristotleThe wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
AristotleWe call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. ChestertonCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt 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.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert EinsteinKnow then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander PopeFor centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. MenckenWhat do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie ChaplinIt is natural to die as to be born.
Francis BaconThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus AureliusIf it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David ThoreauA person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Desmond TutuTo eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul SartreBeing is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Jean-Paul SartreToleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen KellerIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel JohnsonTo me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
Jerry SeinfeldIt is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel KantI don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
Jane GoodallOne always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Jean-Paul SartreThe higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao TzuThe act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Marcus AureliusO God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William ShakespeareTo be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.
William JamesIn books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas CarlyleWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Isaac NewtonAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam ChomskyBuddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan WattsJesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David ThoreauEverything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus AureliusDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin FranklinSomewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia WoolfPoetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
AristotleNothing 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.
Baruch SpinozaMaybe stories are just data with a soul.
Brene BrownIf it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George CarlinNo man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMan’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise PascalThere is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauFaith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Martin LutherTo be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.
William James