..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

Those who love to live enjoy the beauty of life.

All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.