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

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Reality is a sliding door.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

And yet it moves.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

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

Non-violence is the article of faith.

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.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?