The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

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

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

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.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

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.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Life is warfare.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

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.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

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

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.