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Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent, even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Not result is the purpose of action, but God's eternal delight in becoming, seeing and doing.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Revolutions hew the past to pieces and cast it into a cauldron, but what has emerged is the old Aeson with a new visage.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Open thy eyes and see what the world really is and what God; have done with vain and pleasant imaginations.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
To commit adultery with God is the perfect experience for which the world was created.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
In God's providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
What is vice but an enslaving habit and virtue but a human opinion? See God and do His will; walk in whatever path He shall trace for thy goings.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
If thy aim be great and thy means small, still act; for by action alone these can increase to thee.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Suffer yourself to be tempted within so that you may exhaust in the struggle your downward propensities.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
The whole world is my seraglio and every living being and inanimate existence in it is the instrument of my rapture.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Mankind has used two powerful weapons to destroy its own powers and enjoyment, wrong indulgence and wrong abstinence.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Hate not the oppressor, for, if he is strong, thy hate increases his force of resistance; if he is weak, thy hate was needless.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Even when one has climbed up into those levels of bliss where pain vanishes, it still survives disguised as intolerable ecstasy.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)