What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

History should be written as philosophy.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

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

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

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.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

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.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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

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