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

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

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

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

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

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

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.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

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

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.