The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

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

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

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

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

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

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Actor’s life is very long.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

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.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Life is short, the art long.