💬 Quotes

"The master of a woman's house as well as the master of his own, is not enough; she must be as much as possible at his beck and call, constantly occupied in pleasing him, and excluded from every other possible occupation."

"The greatest hindrance to human advancement is to be found in this, that the intellect and energies of half the human race are habitually repressed and crippled."

"Like a religion, it is taught in childhood; its precepts are continually whispered by insidious voices; the status quo is maintained by public opinion and enforced by law, until it comes to be regarded as part of the immutable constitution of nature."

"Their *esse* is *percipi*, nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them."

"It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct of their being perceived by the understanding."

"But, say you, though the ideas themselves do not exist without the mind, yet there may be things like them whereof they are copies or resemblances, which things exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance."

"Light and colors, heat and cold, extension and figure—in a word the things we see and feel—what are they so many sensations, notions, ideas, or impressions on the sense? And is it possible to separate, even in thought, any of these from perception?"

"From what has been said, it follows there is not any other substance than spirit, or that which perceives."

"We may indeed assert that the great Creator and Preserver of all things does continually imprint on our minds all those sensible ideas, which we call the works of nature."

"Law in the visible Universe is but the Gottes-plan in the invisible."

"To obey the elements in the physical world is to be free. And so the ultimate freedom of the spiritual man is to be found in an enthusiastic obedience to spiritual law."

"Natural Law is not to be separated from the Divine Law; it is simply the expression of the Divine Mind operating through physical and spiritual mediums."

"Growth is simply the outward expression of an inward life; it cannot be manufactured, it must be developed from a living germ."

"Death is not the cessation of existence, but the separation from the source of life; eternal life is the indwelling of the Divine in the human soul."

"A red patch on a canvas is valuable simply because it is a red patch. It is not in spite of its being unliked, or in consequence of its being liked, but just because it is what it is, that the critic and the people are beginning to wax ecstatic over it."

"With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"Charity creates a multitude of sins."

"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence... and as I have pointed out, the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism—they are forced, by the pressure of public opinion, to starve and spoil their true selves."

"Public opinion constitutes on immorality. For everyone in this community is working at the mechanical formation of the opinion of everyone else."

"A man is not poor of his own will: and as for the working classes, they are wiser than the capitalists, because they grasp the true meaning of life and its pleasures better than those who employ them."