@hunter
1. ON BELIEF
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.