A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.
I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.
Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.
We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.