The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.
Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
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