Lykke Per Quotes

One entry was entitled: "About God": "This thought has been ascribed to Voltaire: If God did not exist, mankind would have invented Him. I find more truth in the reverse: If there really is a God, then we should seek to forget Him, to raise up men who will to do good for goodness' sake, not out of fear of punishment for their bad deeds. How can someone give alms to a poor man with a clean heart when he believes, and has an interest in believing, that there is a God who keeps score in heaven, who looks down and nods in approval?

Every man’s soul is an independent universe, his death the extinction of the universe in miniature.

Without the original human urge to develop, without the self-generated power that expresses itself as a passion (wether it be directed toward the real world or the world of thoughts or dreams) and without that strong, even bold courage to will to be oneself in all our divine nakedness, no one reaches real freedom.

Thanks to God, life can grow green and blossom in gloomy garrets. The joy of love and domestic happiness follows us into our sooty backyards. What is happening is merely a change of scene in the endless play of the world. We ourselves remain what we are through all time and eternity.

There is only one thing that can conquer suffering: the Passion.