Notable Quotable 53

Joel Walbert

Feb 12, 2023

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

- Pythagoras

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

The free market punishes irresponsibility.

Government rewards it.

- Harry Browne

The real man smiles at trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

- Thomas Paine

A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either command them, or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

- St. Dominic Guzman

The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given.

A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa.

- Max Heindel

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

- George MacDonald

The mind is it's own place and can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.

- John Milton

In an ever-changing , incomprehensible world, the masses have reached the point where they would, at the same time believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true.

- Hannah Arendt

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

- Georg Hegel