Manly Hall Quotes

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• Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.
• There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include…
• Moderation is the secret of survival.
• We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the…
• Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This,…
• The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
• This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch…
• There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and,…
• Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.
• We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.
• Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when…
• To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the…
• The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications…
• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
• Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
• Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments
• Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.
• If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

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