It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it.
It's all in the mind.
Where is this heaven? You have not even the power to see one grain of sand here. Can you see this earth of ours? The earth appears to us to be stationary, and the sun seems to go round us; but if we could get away from our earth, and look down from the sun upon it, we should see that it is moving round the sun in a circle, and that the sun is standing still. So it is with our conceptions of heaven and hell; they are not real, but only human conceptions.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
“Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it.”
It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it.
It's all in the mind.
Where is this heaven? You have not even the power to see one grain of sand here. Can you see this earth of ours? The earth appears to us to be stationary, and the sun seems to go round us; but if we could get away from our earth, and look down from the sun upon it, we should see that it is moving round the sun in a circle, and that the sun is standing still. So it is with our conceptions of heaven and hell; they are not real, but only human conceptions.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
“Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it.”