We moralize among ruins.

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

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

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

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

It is natural to die as to be born.

That government is best which governs least.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Change alone is unchanging.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Saints need sinners.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Man – a being in search of meaning.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.