Life and Existence

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

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

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?