All things Quote by Alexander Pope

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless…

— Pope Francis

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

— Alexander Pope

“To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation,…

— John Henry Newman

“Pure, clean, void, tranquil, breathless, selfless, endless, undecaying, steadfast, eternal, unborn, independent, he abides in his own greatness,”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“For every sentient being is God—omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, and eternal—pretending with the utmost sincerity and determination to be otherwise, to be a mere creature…

— Alan W. Watts

“[God is] the eternal, independent, and self existent Being; the Being whose purposes and actions spring from himself, without foreign motive or influence; he…

— Adam Clarke

“One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal…

— Upton Sinclair

“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive…

— Herman Melville

“Then, with a horror of pitiful amazement, she saw a great cross marked in two cruel stripes on his back; and the thoughts that…

— George MacDonald

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's…

— John Milton

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“In this sort of hair-trigger eternity I felt that everything was justified, supremely justified; I felt the wars inside me that had left behind…

— Henry Miller