God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. — Charles Lindbergh

I’ve had enough publicity for 15 lives. — Charles Lindbergh

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. — Charles Lindbergh

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life. — Charles Lindbergh

Life without risks is not worth living. — Charles Lindbergh

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? — Charles Lindbergh

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. — Charles Lindbergh

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. — Charles A. Lindbergh

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life’s progress would be ended. — Charles Lindbergh

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. — Charles Lindbergh

I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life. — Charles Lindbergh

Science is insulating man from life–separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetises his senses so that he doesn’t know what he’s missing. — Charles A. Lindbergh

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. — Charles Lindbergh

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die? — Charles Lindbergh

I don’t believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn’t worth living. — Charles Lindbergh

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques. — Charles Lindbergh

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. — Charles Lindbergh

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel? — Charles Lindbergh

Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place? — Charles Lindbergh

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science. — Charles Lindbergh

Individuals are custodians of the life stream––temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams. — Charles Lindbergh

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: ‘What is I?’ Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves? — Charles Lindbergh

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many––myself and humanity in flux. — Charles Lindbergh

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest… — Charles A. Lindbergh

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see . — Charles Lindbergh

Flying a good airplane doesn’t require near as much attention as a motor car. — Charles Lindbergh

Pilots are drawn to flying because it’s a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure. — Charles Lindbergh

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality. — Charles Lindbergh

What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger. — Charles Lindbergh

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians. — Charles Lindbergh

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. — Charles Lindbergh

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man’s potentialities appear to be unbounded. — Charles Lindbergh

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized. — Charles Lindbergh

I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines. — Charles Lindbergh

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy’s it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core. — Charles Lindbergh

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere. — Charles Lindbergh

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. — Charles Lindbergh

This is earth again, the earth where I’ve lived and now will live once more … I’ve been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again. — Charles Lindbergh

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. — Charles Lindbergh

We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment. — Charles Lindbergh

It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability. — Charles Lindbergh

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire. — Charles Lindbergh

Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint. — Charles Lindbergh

I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future. — Charles Lindbergh