If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Our intention creates our reality.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.