The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

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.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

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

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

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

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

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.

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?

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

To be is to do.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

The lie is a condition of life.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

God always wants us to be growing.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Christians are not limited to any church.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

We moralize among ruins.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

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

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

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.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.