Quotes of Albert Pike - somelinesforyou

“ What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others & the world remains & is immortal. ”

- Albert Pike

“ We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. ”

- Albert Pike

“ What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ”

- Albert Pike

“ We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. ”

- Albert Pike

“ We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. ”

- Albert Pike

“ That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. ”

- Albert Pike

“ We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. ”

- Albert Pike

“ He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current… Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. ”

- Albert Pike

“ He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current… Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. ”

- Albert Pike

“ Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. ”

- Albert Pike

“ Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. ”

- Albert Pike

“ He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current… Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. ”

- Albert Pike

“ A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. ”

- Albert Pike

“ A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable. ”

- Albert Pike

“ The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. ”

- Albert Pike

“ A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. ”

- Albert Pike

“ One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature. ”

- Albert Pike

“ Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices. ”

- Albert Pike

“ Our dreams are as real, while they last, as the occurrences of the daytime. We see, hear, feel, act, experience pleasure and suffer pain as vividly and actually in a dream as when awake. The occurrences and transactions of a year are crowded into the limits of a second, and the dream remembered is as real as the past occurrences of life. ”

- Albert Pike

“ War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. ”

- Albert Pike

“ One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature. ”

- Albert Pike

“ What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ”

- Albert Pike

“ Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ”

- Albert Pike

“ Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him… He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form… the Universe. ”

- Albert Pike

“ A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. ”

- Albert Pike

“ He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current… Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. ”

- Albert Pike

“ A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. ”

- Albert Pike

“ The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole. ”

- Albert Pike

“ Know thou the self as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call the enjoyer. ”

- Albert Pike

“ Know thou the self as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call the enjoyer. ”

- Albert Pike
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