Andrew Jackson Davis quotes

“Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.”
-- Andrew Jackson Davis

Source : Andrew Jackson Davis (1847). “The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind”, p.21

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“Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.”
-- Andrew Jackson Davis

Source : Andrew Jackson Davis (1866). “The History and Philosophy of Evil: With Suggestions for More Ennobling Institutions, and Philosophical Systems of Education”, p.89

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“To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.”

“Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

“The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.”

“A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.”

“Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.”

“Where but in the very ***** of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through”

“I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.”

“The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.”

Source : Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

“Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.”

Source : Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”