Truth is a pathless land.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

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

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

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

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

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

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.

God to me is love.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

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.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

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

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.