“I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.”
Fallaci interview (1973)
“I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.”
Fallaci interview (1973)
“I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. ”
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
“Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think.”
Sermon 37 "The Nature of Enthusiasm"
Sermons on Several Occasions (1771)
Context: Beware you are not a fiery, persecuting enthusiast. Do not imagine that God has called you (just contrary to the spirit of Him you style your Master) to destroy men’s lives, and not to save them. Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love.
“I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.”
“When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.”
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain”
Oprah Magazine (2004)
“The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul”
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, i. 15.
“What is most personal is most universal.”
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”
Variant: Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Context: But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v
“It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.”
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS.”
“Never let your personal desires and emotions outcompete your reasoning capacity.”
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.51 (July 2018)