To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

I think the word rich is all relative.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Nature does nothing in vain.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Our life is made by the death of others.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

What we live by we die by.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

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

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

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

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

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

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.