This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

A useless life is an early death.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Philosophy is the highest music.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Life is our dictionary.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.