Sallust Quotes

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.

Something lurked inside the truth.