Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

What goes up must come down.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

God always wants us to be growing.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

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.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.