Quotes on Life

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Life is beautiful. He who reads that_x000D_ _x000D_ As in the window of some distant, speeding train_x000D_ _x000D_ Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

Life is not at all what you might think it to be_x000D_ _x000D_ A simple tale where each thing has its history_x000D_ _x000D_ It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes_x000D_ _x000D_ Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.