315 quotes found
“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are o...”
“When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world no matter how imperfect becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
“Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,but it is belief that is the positive, it is beliefthat sustains thought and holds the world together.”
“If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin wi...”
“For with his little secret that he cannot divulge, the poet buys this power of the word to tell everybody else's dark secrets. A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of th...”
“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breath forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when ...”
“But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic fli...”
“By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person forgets himself, in a divine sense forgets his ...”
“Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”
“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.”
“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of...”
“Prayer is listening.”
“Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my...”
“A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the rel...”
“The greatest hazard of all, losing ones self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a ...”
“Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.”
“He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.”
