There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

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

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

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

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

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

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Real living is living for others.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.