Quotes by Organist

“What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.”

“Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.”

“Aim for service and success will follow!”

“The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.”

“If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.”

“Dare to face the situation... Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.”

“Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.”

“Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.”

“The doctor of the future will be oneself.”

“All work that is worth anything is done in faith.”

“The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.”

“The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.”

“If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.”

“Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.”

“The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.”

“Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.”

“Constant Kindness can accomplish much.”

“Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.”

“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.”

“We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.”

“Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.”

“All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.”

“O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.”

“All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.”