What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

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.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

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.

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

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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

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

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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