Gnostic Quotes
What’s the meaning of life? Aphorisms, maxims and quotations expressing the paradoxical essence of gnosticism.
Heart
"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." - Charles H. Perkhurst
"The heart has its reasons that reason cannot know." - Pascal
Heaven
"Everyone in Heaven is at peace and happy, and they all hop around from cloud to cloud. In heaven you can see your grandparents and everyone you loved once again. And an old man with a long white beard wanders around, that's God." - Britney Spears
"The human mind is inspired enough when [...]
Hell
"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell." - Aldous Huxley
"I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there." - Arthur Rimbaud
"I couldn’t claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful." - Kathleen Raine [...]
Herd
"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Always drink upstream from the herd." - The Wisdom of Will Rogers
Heresies
"The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy." - Jorge Luis Borges: "The Theologians"
"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next." - Helen Keller
"It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions." - Thomas H. Huxley [...]
Hinduism
"These bodies are perishable; but the dwellers in these bodies are eternal, indestructible and impenetrable." - The Bhagavad Gita, Book of Daily Thoughts and Prayers
"Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear." - Isa Upanishad
History
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." - George Santayana
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?" - Napolean Bonaparte
"History is the devil's scripture." - Byron, Lord, 1788-1824
"History is more or less bunk." - Henry Ford
Home
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home." - William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 [...]
Humor
"Humor is just another defense against the universe." - Mel Brooks
"So a sense of humor is not merely a matter of trying to tell jokes or make puns, trying to be funny in a deliberate fashion. It involves seeing the basic irony of the juxtaposition of extremes, so that one is not [...]
Hunches
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Dr. Joyce Brothers
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." - Frank Capra
"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." - Lily Tomlin
