We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time
— T.S. Eliot
I have no problem with Christ, but in my experiences Christians are rarely Christ-like
— Dalai Llama
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so
— Earl of Chesterfield
You choose your thoughts
— Louise L. Hay
I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness, light persists
— Gandhi
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both natural and spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism
— Albert Einstein
The first proof of a well ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself
— Seneca
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely
— Jorge Luis Borges
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education
— John Ruskin
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware
— Henry Miller
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself
— Aldous Huxley
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy
— Dean Inge
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us
— Adlai Stevenson
MAN. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be
— Ambrose Bierce
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth