The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

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

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

One 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.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Life is our dictionary.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

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

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

You can only have one aim per debate.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.