Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

A lie cannot live.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

If you wished to be loved, love.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

To live is to think.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Our God is a forgiving God.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.