Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

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

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

What we live by we die by.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Latin music is universal.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

God always wants us to be growing.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Real living is living for others.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.