Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

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?

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

There is nothing so stable as change.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.