Quotes About Transcendence

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?