Notable Quotable 82

May 17, 2023

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

- Albert Einstein

He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery.

- Three Initiates, The Kybalion

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

- Alan Watts

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

- Henry David Thoreau

I command you to leave me at once, for your ideas and phantasies are but the illusions that creep like maggots into civilisations when they begin to decline, and into minds when they begin to decay.

- W.B. Yeats

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Joseph Addison

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

The truth is that any advance in science leaves morality in its ancient balance; and it depends still on the inscrutable soul of man whether any discovery is mainly a benefit or mainly of calamity. This is, perhaps, the strongest argument for a morality superior to materialism, and a religion that refuses to be bullied by science. Moral progress must still be made morally; and a modern scientist, who has invented the most complex mechanism, or liberated the most subtle gas, has still exactly the same spiritual problem before him as that which confronted Cain, when he stood with a ragged stone in his hand.

- G.K. Chesterton

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

- Miyamoto Musashi

This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.

- Joseph Campbell