We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

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

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

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.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

There is no wealth but life.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I live in a crazy time.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Sin is geographical.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

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

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

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.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

All men are equal before fish.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.