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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person’s strength.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.