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"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity." - Alan Moore
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln
"To what is One, sages give many a title." - Rig Veda Samhita 1.164.46
"Do what Thou Wilt shall be the Whole of the Law, Love is the Law, Love under Will." - Aleister Crowley
"Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals." - Doreen Valiente
"In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love." - Bahá'u'lláh
"Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable." - Aleister Crowley
"Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world." - Shakyamuni Buddha
"Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling their delight as our own." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." - Benjamin Disraeli
"In the twilight of life, G-d will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved." - San Juan de la Cruz
"Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out." - San Juan de la Cruz
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"The things that we love tell us what we are." Thomas Aquinas
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love." Albert Camus
"The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes." - Voltaire
"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others." - Denis Diderot
"When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else." - John Henry Newman
"To have joy, one must share it." - Lord Byron
"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." Henry David Thoreau
"Every man and every woman is a star." - Aleister Crowley
"As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Everything above and below is one unity." - the Baal Shem Tov
"Your own self is your master; who else could be? With yourself well controlled, you gain a master very hard to find." - Shakyamuni Buddha
"Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years." - the Prophet Muhammad PBUH
"Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness." - Emmanuel Swedenborg
"None of you can truly be said to believe until he wants for his brother what he wants for himself." - the Prophet Muhammad PBUH
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." - John Muir
"Accept all humans as your equal and let this be your only sect." - Guru Nanak
"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way." - Heraclitus
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." - Lord Byron
"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray." - Lord Byron
"If you don't stand for something you fall for everything." - Malcom X
"I want my name to mean me."- Mark Haddon
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle
"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself." - Albert Camus
"There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death." - Denis Diderot
"Art is the proper task of life."- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world." - Giuseppe Mazzini
"Song is the soul of the universe." - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
"Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away." - William Blake
"Man is essentially a story-telling animal, but a teller of stories that aspire to truth." - Alasdair MacIntyre
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations." - Henry David Thoreau
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." - Henry David Thoreau
"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement." - John Ruskin
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." - Frank Herbert
"A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t." - Sir Roger Scruton
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." - John Henry Newman
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." - Simone de Beauvoir
"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity." - Hannah Ardent
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." - John Stuart Mill
"The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry." - the Prophet Muhammad PBUH
"A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society." - Russell Kirk
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens." - Benjamin Disraeli
"What wisdom can you find greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." - Hannah Arendt
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said." - Voltaire
"They who forgive most shall be most forgiven." - William Blake
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
"We are not personalists, we are partisans of principles and not of men!" - Emiliano Zapata
"The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking." - Murray Bookchin
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life." - John Stuart Mill
"The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them." - Hannah Arendt
"History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends." - Karl Marx
"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself." - Lev Davidovich Trotsky
"History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce." - Joseph Schumpter
"What we learn from History is that no one learns from History." - Otto von Bismarck
"The events which can not be prevented, must be directed." - Klemens von Metternich
"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." - Edmund Burke
"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end." - Lev Davidovich Trotsky
"If there is no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government." - Emiliano Zapata
"They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money." - Lord Byron
"Culture starts in the kitchen, not in the opera house." - Rod Dreher
"I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too." - Giuseppe Garibaldi
"Land ownership is the mother of inequality and cruelty." - Jean Jaurès
"Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor." - Rosa Luxemburg
"The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained." - Russell Kirk
"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason’s power." - Allan Bloom
"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." - Aristotle
"...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside." - Russell Kirk
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" - Barry Goldwater
"It is impossible to achieve a harmonization of man and nature without creating a human community that lives in a lasting balance with its natural environment." - Murray Bookchin
"A man who tries to please all men by weakening his position or compromising his beliefs, in the end has neither position nor beliefs." - Pierre Trudeau
"We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell." - Russell Kirk
"Of course a bilingual state is more expensive than a unilingual one — but it is a richer state." - Pierre Trudeau
"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence." - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods." - Sun Yat-sen
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant." - Maximilien Robespierre
"The nation that has the schools has the future." - Otto von Bismarck
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
“The real truth, that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one.” - Terence McKenna
"Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility." - Russell Kirk
"All that is to last is slow to grow." - Louis Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald
"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." - Otto von Bismarck
"War is what happens when language fails." - Margaret Atwood