Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.