Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

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

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

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

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

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

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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

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

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Religion is the opium of the masses.