'That the nature of everything is best seen in its smallest portions.' Link

God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes. Link

'Words are but the current tokens or marks of popular notions of things.' Link

'... parables were before arguments: ... because reason cannot be so sensible, nor examples so fit.' Link

'... time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid.' Link

'... after the distribution of particular arts and sciences, men have abandoned universality, or philosophia prima; which cannot but cease and stop all progression.' Link

'... men have withdrawn themselves too much from the contemplation of nature, and the observations of experience, and have tumbled up and down in their own reason and conceits'. Link

'... all works do show forth the power and skill of the workman, and not his image; so it is of the works of God, which do show the omnipotency and wisdom of the Maker, but not His image.' Link

'For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture.' Link

'... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, ... yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.' Link

'A little or superficial knowledge of Philosophy may incline the mind of man to Atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to Religion.' Link

'In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.' Link

'There is a trick with which votaries of Feminism seek to prejudice the public mind against its critics, and that is the "fake" that any man who ventures to criticise the pretensions of Feminism, is actuated by motives of personal rancour against the female sex.' (The Fraud of Feminism p.7)

'Modern Feminism has two distinct sides to it: (1) an articulate political and economic side embracing demands for so-called rights; and (2) a sentimental side which insists in an accentuation of the privileges and immunities which have grown up, not articulately or as the result of definite demands, but as the consequence of sentimental pleading in particular cases. In this way, however, a public opinion became established, finding expression in a sex favouritism in the law and even still more in its administration, in favour of women as against men.' (The Fraud of Feminism p.12)

'From all we have said, it will now be evident, one would think, to the most prejudiced reader that modern English Law, following obsequiously a deluded or apathetic stage of public opinion, has solved the problem of the division of rights and duties between the sexes, by conceding to woman all rights, and imposing on man all duties.' (The Legal Subjection of Men: A Sex Noblesse)

Psalms

EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain. (Psalm 127:1)

Ecclesiastes

TO every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)

'A jug fills drop by drop.'

'Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.'

'To understand everything is to forgive everything.'

'Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.'

'Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.'

'In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.'

'We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.'

'No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.'

'Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.'

'There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.'

'All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon…. If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.'

'Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.'

'Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.'

'The mind is everything. What you think you become.'

'If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.'

'Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.'

'However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?.'

'I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.'

'You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.'

'To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.'

'[Discussing mystical experiences induced by psychotropic drugs] ... the difference between the mystical experience and the psychological crack-up. The difference is that the one who cracks up is drowning in the water in which the mystic swims. You have to be prepared for this experience.'

'[Consciousness] is part of the Cartesian mode to think of consciousness as being something peculiar to the head, that the head is the organ originating consciousness. It isn't. The head is an organ that inflects consciousness in a certain direction, or to a certain set of purposes. But there is a consciousness here in the body. The whole living world is informed by consciousness.'

'[Because] Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ... have three different names for the same biblical god, they can't get on together. They are stuck with the metaphor and don't realize its reference.' POM p.26

'Moyers: You tell a story about a local jungle native who once said to a missionary, Your god keeps himself shut up in a house as if he were old and infirm. Ours is in the forest and in the fields and on the mountains when the rain comes. POM p.26

Campbell: The Yahweh cult was a specific movement in the Hebrew community which finally won. This was a pushing through of a certain temple-bound god against the nature cult, which was celebrated all over the place ...' POM p.26

[When human beings destroy nature and the revelations of nature] They destroy their own nature too. They kill the song.' POM p.27

'The closest thing I know to a planetary mythology is Buddhism, which sees all things as Buddha beings ... Now brotherhood in most of the myths I know of is confined to a bounded community. In bounded communities, aggression is projected outward. For example, the ten commandments say, Thou shalt not kill. then the next chapter says, Go into Canaan and kill everybody in it. That is a bounded field. The myths of participation and love pertain only to the in-group, and the out-group is totally other. This is the sense of the word gentile — the person is not of the same order. POM p.28' POM p.28

'... there are two totally different orders of mythology. There is the mythology that relates you to your nature and to the natural world, of which you're a part. And there is the mythology that is strictly sociological, linking you to a particular society. ... Usually the socially oriented system is of a nomadic people who are moving around ... The nature-orientated mythology would be of an earth-cultivating people.

Now the biblical tradition is a socially oriented mythology. Nature is condemned. In the nineteenth century, scholars thought of mythology and ritual as an attempt to control nature. But that is magic, not mythology or religion. Nature religions are not attempts to control nature but to help you put yourself in accord with it. But when nature is thought of as evil, you don't put yourself in accord with it, you control it, or try to, and hence the tension, the anxiety, the cutting down of forests, the annihilation of native people. And the accent here separates us from nature.' POM p.28

'You have to distinguish between reason and thinking ... your reason is one kind of thinking, but thinking things out isn't necessarily reason in this sense ... reason has to do with finding the ground of being and the fundamental structuring of the universe.' POM p.37

'Myth basically serves four functions. First is the mystical function ... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder you are, and experiencing awe before this mystery ... The second is a cosmological dimension, the dimension with which science is concerned — showing you what the shape of the universe is, but showing it in such a way that the mystery again comes through ... The third function is the sociological one — supporting and validating a certain social order ... [The] fourth function of myth, ... is the pedagogical function, of how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances.' p.38

'The biblical traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam all speak with derogation of the so-called nature religions. ... Every religion is true in one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. but when it gets stuck to its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.' p.67

'[purgatory] ... one has to be purged clean of one's limitations. The limitations are what are called sins. Sin is simply a limiting factor that limits your consciousness and fixes it in an inappropriate condition.' p.69

'We are all manifestations of Buddha consciousness, or Christ consciousness, only we don't know it. The word Buddha means the one who waked up. We are all to do that — to wake up to the Christ or Buddha consciousness within.' p.69

' No, the idea of life as an ordeal through which you become released from the bondage of life belongs to the higher religions. I don't think I see anything like that in aboriginal mythology.' p.70

'The word God properly refers to what transcends all thinking, but the word God itself is something thought about ... One problem with Yahweh, is they used to say in the old Christian Gnostic texts, is that he forgot he was a metaphor. He thought he was a fact.' p.76

'The ancient myths were designed to harmonize the mind and the body. The mind can ramble off in strange ways and want things that the body does not want. The myths and rites were means of putting the mind in accord with the body and the way of life in accord with the way that nature dictates.' p.87

'... the basic theme of all mythology — that there is an invisible plane supporting the visible one.' p.90

'Jesus is the fruit of eternal life, which was on the second forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden ... The tree of coming back to the Garden [Christ crucified on the cross] is the tree of immortal life, where you know that I and the father are one.' p.133

'Religion turns poetry into prose. God is literally up there, and this is literally what he thinks, and this is the way you've got to behave to get into proper relationship with that god up there.' p.174

'You see, consciousness thinks it's running the shop. But it's a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control. It must submit and serve the humanity of the body.' p.181

'[New models are] already here, in the religions. All religions have been true for their time. If you can recognize the enduring aspect of their truth and separate it from the temporal applications, you've got it.' p.182

' No, mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical ... mythology is the penultimate truth — penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images, ... mythology pitches the mind ... to what can be known but not told.' p.206

'All of the references of religious and mythological images are to planes of consciousness, or fields of experience that are potential in human spirit.' p.207

'The death and resurrection of the god is everywhere associated with the moon, which dies and is resurrected every month. It is for two nights, on three days dark. And we have Christ for two nights, or three days in the tomb.' p.223

'The vandalism involved in the destruction of the pagan temples of antiquity is hardly matched in world history.' p.248

'The psychologist Jung has a relevant saying: religion is a defence against the experience of God.' p.261

'... when immortality is misunderstood as being an everlasting body, it turns into a clown act ... On the other hand, when immortality is understood to be identification with that which is of eternity in your own life now, it's something else again.' p.282

'If you are going through hell, keep going.'

'Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.'

'Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.'

'The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.'

'A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.'

'We contend that for a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.'

'When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.'

'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.'

'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.'

'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'

'Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.'

'To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.'

'The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.'

'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.'

'The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.'

'This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.'

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

A common man man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals; adjust the action steps.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Study without reflection is a waste. Reflection without study is a danger.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

'Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.'

'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'

'Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.'

'Little things affect little minds.'

'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'

'To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.'

'Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.'

'Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.'

'Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.'

'The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.'

'Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.'

'The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.'

'The fool wonders, the wise man asks.'

'A precedent embalms a principle.'

'Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.'

'Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.'

'Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.'

'What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.'

'Genius, when young, is divine.'

'There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.'

'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'

'Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.'

'We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.'

'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.'

'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

'The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.'

'It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.'

'The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.'

'The only real valuable thing is intuition.'

'It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.'

'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.'

'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.'

'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.'

'Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.'

'Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.'

'When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.'

'A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.'

'Any fool can know. The point is to understand.'

'If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?'

'Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.'

'I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.'

'The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.'

'As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.'

'The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.'

'The only thing that is constant is change.'

'Much learning does not teach understanding.'

'Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.'

'All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.'

'The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.'

'What was scattered gathers.
What was gathered blows away.'

'All things come into being by conflict of opposites.'

'The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.'

'Just suppose that someone proposed to the entirety of mankind that a selection of the very best practices be made from the sum of human custom: each group of people, after carefully sifting through the customs of other peoples, would surely choose its own. Everyone believes its own customs to be far and away the best.'

'All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.'

'Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.'

'Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.'

'It is better to be envied than pitied.'

'Great things are won by great dangers.'

'Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.'

'Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.'

'When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.'

'Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'

'If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.'

'The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.'

'Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'

'Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.'

'A man with outward courage dares to die;
a man with inner courage dares to live.'

'Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.'

'Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.'

'Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.'

'Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.'

'At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.'

'Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.'

'The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.'

'The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.' The Crowd p.8

'Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.' The Crowd p.99

'One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.'

'The substitution of the unconscious action of crowds for the conscious activity of individuals is one of the principal characteristics of the present age.' The Crowd p.v

'Nothing is more fatal to a people than the mania for gret reforms.' The Crowd p.vii

'From among all religions, Islam best suits the discoveries of science and is the most ready to edify souls and charge them to abide by justice, kindness and toleration.'

'If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.'

'In politics, things matter less than their names. Disguising the most absurd theories under well-chosen words is often enough to get them accepted.'

'Reson creates science; sentiments and creeds shape history.'

'It is a known face that almost all revolutions have been the work, not ot the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.'

'The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.' The Crowd p.153

'It is time in particular that prepares the opinions and beliefs of crowds, or at least the soil on which they will germinate.' The Crowd p.77

'Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian — that is, a creature acting by instinct.' The Crowd p.13

'Under difficult circumstances, heroism can save the nation but only a combination of small everyday virtues defines its greatness.'

'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'

From 'The Master and His Emissary':

'Emotion is inseparable from the body in which it is felt, and emotion is also the basis for our engagement with the world.' p.66

'Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.' p.74

'The model we choose to use to understand something determines what we find.' p.97

'So the left hemisphere needs certainty and needs to be right. The right hemisphere makes it possible to hold several ambiguous possibilities in suspension together without premature closure on one outcome. p.82'

'So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them ... it shapes, rather than grounds, our thinking.' p.110

'Metaphor is the crucial aspect of language whereby it retains its connectedness to the world ...' p.125

'The knowledge that is mediated by the left hemisphere is knowledge within a closed system ... It can mediate knowledge only in terms of a mechanical rearrangement of other things already known. It can never really 'break out' to know anything new ... Where the thing itself is 'present' to the right hemisphere ... is conscious of the Other, whatever it may be.' p.174

'If the detached, highly focused attention of the left hemisphere is brought to bear on living things, and not later resolved into the whole picture by right-hemisphere attention, which yields depth and context, it is destructive.' p.182

Pascal, had reached a similar conclusion, uncongenial as it is to the philosophy of Enlightenment. 'The ultimate achievement of reason', he wrote, 'is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. p.354

'we might have to revise the superior assumption that we understand the world better than our ancestors, and adopt a more realistic view that we just see it differently – and may indeed be seeing less than they did.' p.461

From a talk at the UnHerd club London. (YouTube)

'Science can't test the idea that Science can ultimately explain everything.'

'Pascal: the endpoint of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.'

'Consciousness is an ontological primitive. It is not secreted by the brain it is in everything.'

'We are all in a world completely deluded.'

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

I drink to make other people interesting.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Quote me as saying I was misquoted.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

A woman is an occasional pleasure, but a cigar is always a smoke.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

If you are not having fun you are doing something wrong.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

[Asked at a cricket match if he was enjoying it.] It's great. When does it start?

I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

For Müller, the culture of the Vedic peoples represented a form of nature worship. He saw the gods of the Rig-Veda as active forces of nature, only partly personified as imagined supernatural beings — myth transforming concepts into beings and stories. In Müller's view, 'gods' began as words constructed to express abstract ideas, but were transformed into imagined personalities. In this way a metaphor becomes personified and ossified.

'The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.'

'A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.'

'The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.'

'Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?'

'Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.'

'The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.'

'Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.'

'A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.'

'It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.'

'The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.'

'In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.'

'While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.'

'Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.'

'All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.'

'You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fearsomeone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.'
IB note: The assignment of this saying to Nietzsche appears to be spurious.

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

'Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.'

'He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.'

'God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?'

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

'One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.'

'That which does not kill us makes us stronger.'

'Without music, life would be a mistake.'

'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 is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.'

'In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.'

'Fear is the mother of morality.'

'To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.'

'In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.'

'Woman was God's second mistake.'

'Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.'

'The future influences the present just as much as the past.'

'There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.'

'Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.'

'A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.'

'In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.'

'Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.'

'He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.'

'This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.'

'Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.'

'The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.'

'There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.'

'The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.'

'When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.'

'No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.'

'The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

'The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.'

'Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.'

'When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.'

'When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets'.

'What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.'

'In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him.'

'The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.'

[Of witnessing the first atomic bomb test in 1945, he later recalled:] 'I remembered the line from the Bhagavad-Gita: 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.''

'No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.'

'When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.'

'Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality.'

'There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.'

'It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.'

'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.' 1984

'WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH' 1984

'We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end.' 1984

'Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.' 1984

'The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.'

'The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.' 1984

'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.' 1984

'Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them... The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. ... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge: and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.' 1984

[Double-think] 'To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy; to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.' 1984

'Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.' Essay: Politics and the English Language

'Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.' 1984

'In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.' 1984

'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.'

'Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.' Animal Farm

'No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?' Animal Farm

'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Animal Farm

'Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.' Animal Farm

'If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.' Animal Farm

'There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.' Homage to Catalonia

'The word fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable." The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice, have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.' Essay: Politics and the English Language

'All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.'

'Magic is natural, for nature itself is magic.'

'Sorcery has been called Magic: but Magic is Wisdom, and there is no wisdom in Sorcery'

'Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.'

'One who lives within reason lives without the spirit'

'For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words.' Opus paramirum I:ix

'To understand correctly the meaning of the words Alchemy and Astrology, it is necessary to understand and to realize the intimate relationship and identity of the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and their mutual interaction.'

'Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.'

'When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.'

'The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.'

'Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy nature; the third is an adequate explanation of the properties of all the four elements—that is to say, of the whole cosmos—and an introduction into the art of their transformations; and finally, the fourth shows the physician those virtues which must stay with him up until his death, and it should support and complete the three other pillars.'

'There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.'

'...all our nourishment becomes ourselves; we eat ourselves into being... For every bite we take contains in itself all our organs, all that is included in the whole man, all of which he is constituted... We do not eat bone, blood vessels, ligaments, and seldom brain, heart, and entrails, nor fat, therefore bone does not make bone, nor brain make brain, but every bite contains all these. Bread is blood, but who sees it? It is fat, who sees it? ...for the master craftsman in the stomach is good. He can make iron out of brimstone: he is there daily and shapes the man according to his form.'

'Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.'

'For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.'

'A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.'

'Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.'

'The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.' Pensées

'Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.' Pensées

'People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.' De l'art de persuader

'To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.' Pensées

'It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.'

'Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.' Pensées

'Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.'

'Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.'

'Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.'

'All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.'

'The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.' Pensées

'Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.'

'We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.' Pensées

'Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.'
(The Art of Literature)

'A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.'
(The Art of Literature)

'Everyone appears mad who recognizes the eternal ideas in fleeting things.'

'If in the representation of perception illusion does at moments distort reality, then in the representation of the abstract error can reign for thousands of years, impose its iron yoke on whole nations, stifle the noblest impulses of mankind; through its slaves and dupes it can enchain even the man it cannot deceive. It is the enemy against which the wisest minds of all times have kept up an unequal struggle, and only what these have won from it has become the property of mankind.'
(The World as Will and Representation Vol.1)

'In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-existence is just as possible as its existence.'
(The World as Will and Representation)

'Truth is most beautiful undraped.'
(The Art of Literature)

'All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.'

'The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.'

'Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.'

'Compassion is the basis of morality.'

'Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.'

'Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.'

'Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.'

'Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.'

'To live alone is the fate of all great souls.'

‘All that glisters is not gold.'
(The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7)

‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’
(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5)

‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.‘
(Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1)

‘... be not affraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’
(Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5)

‘Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow,
A poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more;
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’
(Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5)

‘... for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so...’
(Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2)

‘The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’
(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)

‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.’ (Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)

‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’
(Othello, Act 5, Scene 2)

‘Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.’
(Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2)

‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happierlands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’
(Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1)

‘Brevity is the soul of wit.' (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2)

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

We have the best government that money can buy.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself. He goes through the streets of a big city with all its traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time. That is the ideal of Karma-Yoga, and if you have attained to that, you have really learnt the secret of work.

The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

They alone live, who live for others.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

Whatever you think that you will be. if you think yourself weak,weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Learn everything that is good from others but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. …Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Don't look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

All work is by nature composed of good and evil. We cannot do any work which will not do some good somewhere; there cannot be any work which will ot cause some harm somewhere. Karma-Yoga p.29

Any action that makes us go Godward is a good action, and is our duty; any action that makes us go downward is evil, and is not our duty. Karma-Yoga p.39

Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin. Karma-Yoga p.40