Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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

No man was ever wise by chance.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Sin is geographical.

States are not moral agents.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

The art is long, life is short.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.