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

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Plato was a bore.

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?

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

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

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

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

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.