Quotes

Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

“The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.”

Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions.

Be straightforward. Look at things like a man, like a human being, like a citizen, like a mortal.

Think on this doctrine,—that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Variant translation: Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind.

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth. 

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.

Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Choose what's best.—Best is what benefits me.