Quote

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

Albert Pike

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
A. Pike
Seems
Mean
Thing
Never
Worth
Seem
Means
Lost

More quotes by Albert Pike

Image
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Albert Pike
Image
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
Albert Pike
Image
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
Image
Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.
Albert Pike
Image
We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert Pike
Image
The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
Albert Pike
Image
There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of if we would but find them out.
Albert Pike
Image
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
Albert Pike
Image
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
Albert Pike
Image
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
Image
That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
Albert Pike
Image
Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!
Albert Pike
Image
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.
Albert Pike
Image
It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
Albert Pike
Image
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
Albert Pike
Image
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
Albert Pike
Image
We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.
Albert Pike
Image
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike
Image
A good man will find that there is goodness in the world an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.
Albert Pike
Image
That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
Albert Pike