"The Perennial Philosophy" Quotes
An exploration of the common spiritual truths found across various religious traditions.
philosophy | 336 pages | Published in 1944
Quotes
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
The artist is a servant of that ineffable something which every religion knows as God.
The Perennial Philosophy is the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds.
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
The man who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what they did not have or become what they were not.
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
