Manly Hall famous quotes

04-17-2025

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.
-- Manly Hall

#Atoms #Universe
We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of the man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances. When however, worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free, even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.
-- Manly Hall

#Spiritual #Integrity #Men
Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.
-- Manly Hall

#Thinking #Law Of Attraction #Men
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
-- Manly Hall

#Ends #Theory #Mankind
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
-- Manly Hall

#Wise #Men #Knowing
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
-- Manly Hall

#Weapons #Causes
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.
-- Manly Hall

#Creating #Design #Substance
Moderation is the secret of survival.
-- Manly Hall

#Secret #Survival #Moderation
Man's security comes from within himself.
-- Manly Hall

#Men #Security
To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.
-- Manly Hall

#War #Book #Writing
The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.
-- Manly Hall

#Religious #Simple #Expression
Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.
-- Manly Hall

#Philosophy #Priorities #Substance
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.
-- Manly Hall

#Book #Symbolism #Touching
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.
-- Manly Hall

#Wise #Attitude #Men
In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.
-- Manly Hall

#Men #Body #Arms
Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others. It is also our responsibility, however, to share one with another such experiences as may have common value. We desire, therefore, not to convert or convince, but to invite such a sharing with the sincere hope that some mutual good will be accomplished.
-- Manly Hall

#Philosophy #Responsibility #Desire
There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the brain. These two "trees" are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy currents in the aura or superphysical bodies.
-- Manly Hall

#Heart #Men #Two
This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch of that tree does not bear fruit, the Master tells us that it shall be cut off and cast into the fire. It is the duty of all living things to produce some truly constructive labor as recognition of the divine life which is within them. God is most glorified when His children glorify His spirit within themselves.
-- Manly Hall

#Children #Cutting #Men
Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This, say the explanations, was the Spirit of God moving on the chaos until its breath had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its month--emblem of eternity in its spiritual and of our world in its physical sense.
-- Manly Hall

#Spiritual #Moving #Fire
There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.
-- Manly Hall

#Spiritual #Dying #Levels Of Life
Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.
-- Manly Hall

#Suicide #Suicidal #Men
Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments
-- Manly Hall

#Philosopher #Chemicals #Experiments
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
-- Manly Hall

#Blessing #Self #Boredom

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