“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

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

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

We like to be deceived.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Imagination decides everything.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn’t than live as if he doesn’t exist to find out He does.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

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

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such a doctrine, the victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people.

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.

There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.

Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity