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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton
- Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. — Alfred North Whitehead
- Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. — Alfred North Whitehead
- True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. — Alfred North Whitehead