A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

Jesus must have been a psychopath

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

If only stupid people could have the mere intelligence to shut up while discussing serious matter, the world would go along so much better !

To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.

If you have a dream as a child, but you let it go cold, you will grow old only to realize that you have sold your gold for no royalty!

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

The cops drive by to do some more good deeds A young black male spits a sunflower seed in the air.

I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.