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

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The art is long, life is short.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Character is power.

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.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

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

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Where there is love there is life.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.