Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
The dead govern the living.
Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.
There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?
No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.
Keep eternity before the children.
[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.
The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times.
If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
Nature and wisdom always say the same.
The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.
I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.
What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
