Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

History should be written as philosophy.

Silence is the mother of truth.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

All diseases run into one, old age.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

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

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

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Sin is geographical.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.