Quote collection
89 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."
"The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional."
"But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing."
"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."
"Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so."
"Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge."
"I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism."
"The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real."
"In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command."
"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry."
"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self."
"Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body."
"It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized."
"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."
"If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy."
"It is absolutely certain that God does exist."
"I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon."
"The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures."
"British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization."
"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes."