Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

There is no unique picture of reality.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

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.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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