There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think about it any more than they can help. I prefer the first two.
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.
The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.
He that best understands the world, least likes it
The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.
