1. “An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.”
2. “Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.”
3. “Thought creates character.”
4. “Where love rules, laws are not needed. “
5. “The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units and dead in its totality; alive as congeries, dead as an organism.”
6. “Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heat and mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.”
7. “I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength and have paid heavily for the weakness.”
8. “Clairvoyant can see flashes of color, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.”
9. “Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.”
10. “There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.”
11. “Socialism is the idea state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.”
12. “The worlds in which man is evolving as he threads the cycle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or the intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.”
13. “The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.”
14. “A civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.”
15. “It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistress out of sight.”
16. “A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of shadows whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.”
17. “The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.”
18. “The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary an constantly interposing Supreme Power.”
19. “We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.”
20. “Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”
21. “No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows he plants in silence and in darkness and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.”
22. “Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.”
23. “Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.”
24. “No philosophy, no religion has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.”
25. “As the heat of coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgement, emotion and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.”
26. “A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.”
27. “Refusal to believe until proof is give is a rational position; denial of all outside of our limited experience is absurd.”
28. “Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.”
29. “That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.”
30. “Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.”
