Author: Albert Pike

Quotes

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

- Albert Pike

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

- Albert Pike

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

- 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.

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

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

- 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.

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

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

- Albert Pike

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