“People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 84
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“Every atheist is an idolater — unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect.”
“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science.”
“Prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.”
“What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.”
“A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror.”
“Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.”
“If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.”
“Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.”
“A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.”
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.”
“We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.”
“It is not in a person's nature to desire what he already has.”
“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”
“Men are unequal in all their relations with the things of this world, without exception.”