Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases. Arriane: Rule number two — don't listen to me!

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

Truth is always paradoxical.

Many a truth is the result of an error.

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

Things don't exist until they exist.

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt a spirit of ill-informed jealousy, or of too great abstraction and refinement is to lead men astray from the plainest paths of reason and conviction.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.