What was God doing before the divine creation?

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

A useless life is an early death.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.