The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The toil of the traces seemed the supreme expression of their being, and all that they lived for and the only thing in which they took delight.

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Heavenly Father — take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband — Though to trust us — seem to us More respectful — We esteem Thy Esteem of us, so vast, So incomprehensible, We touch the fingertips of Faith To an option so precise — The vasty distance magnifies T’other side the gulf of thee — Tho’ the Gulf be not so wide — That would be easier to span — We are used to Wandering Somewhat — Yet with Thee A little further on —

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

The enquiry ‘Who am I?’ is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit.

Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.

The word ‘God’ usually signifies ‘Lord’, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.