@hunter

Let’s start with one of my favourites.

« The truth is rarely pure and never simple. »

Can’t think of a better opener when it comes to spiritual teachings.

« Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. »

This would be an elegant summation of humanity’s relationship to cosmic truth and revelation.

« A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. »

Looking at you there, St Paul.

« Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. »

Testify, Lord. Testify !

« To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. »

But it’s so much warmer in Greece !

« Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. »

One of the cleverest things written in the 1800s, I’d say.