The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

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

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

Life is warfare.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.