Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

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.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

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.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Error is always more busy than truth.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Character is destiny.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!