Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!”
Pearls of Wisdom
“Symbols, by their very nature, conceal as well as indicate, damn them!”
Source: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 1 (p. 29)
“.. to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.”
“Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth”
Abide as the Self
"The Christian System" in Religion: A Dialogue, and Other Essays (1910) as translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, p. 106
Context: The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it; accordingly, they parade their doctrines in all seriousness as true sensu proprio, and as absurdities form an essential part of these doctrines we have the great mischief of a continual fraud. Nay, what is worse, the day arrives when they are no longer true sensu proprio, and then there is an end of them; so that, in that respect, it would be better to admit their allegorical nature at once. But the difficulty is to teach the multitude that something can be both true and untrue at the same time. Since all religions are in a greater or less degree of this nature, we must recognise the fact that mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity, that absurdity is an element in its existence, and illusion indispensable; as indeed other aspects of life testify.
