There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

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.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

God helps those who help themselves.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

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

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

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

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Man is a universe within himself.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

All men are equal before fish.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

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

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.