Miguel
Miguel
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth23 October 1985
CountryUnited States of America
men talking heaven
Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?
optimistic ideas optimism
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
believe too-much littles
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
pain fall heart
He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.
god doe martyr
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
faith wish may
Faith is, before all and above all, wishing God may exist.
use harm function
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
school sincere pretense
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
memories life-is converting
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
school humility science
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
truth sake inhuman
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
disease consciousness
Consciousness is a disease.
giving world way
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
spiritual grief love-is
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.