People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.
Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?
Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep. "
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities. . .
Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?
The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.
Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy
All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.
Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the thought process, and the study of the size of the head. We just wanted to tie it into subject matters.