Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Albert Pike (American Masonic Scholar)

Albert Pike (1809–91) was an American Confederate Army officer, author, poet, orator, jurist, and prominent member of the Freemasons. He was also a senior officer of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Pike went to the Southwestern frontier (1831) and two years later settled in Arkansas. He became a prominent journalist and lawyer, becoming famous and wealthy in the process. He wrote of his frontier adventures in Prose Sketches and Poems, Written in the Western Country (1834.)

After serving in the Mexican War, Pike continued to practice law in various Southern cities. However, during the Civil War, he commanded the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. He quarreled with his superiors and accused the Confederacy of neglecting its treaty obligation to the tribes. He was arrested for treason but later released.

Pike was a leader of the Freemasons; he dominated Scottish Rite Masonry for the next two decades. He published poetry, legal works, and books on Masonic creed and ritual. Of his poems, published in Nugae (1854) and Hymns to the Gods (1872,) the best known is “Dixie” (1861.)

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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man’s onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike
Topics: Doubt

Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. 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

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
Albert Pike

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

The sovereignty of one’s self over one’s self is called Liberty.
Albert Pike
Topics: Freedom

A human thought is an actual existence, and a force and power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
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.
Albert Pike
Topics: Service, Death, Helping, Generosity, Sacrifice

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
Albert Pike
Topics: Medicine

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.
Albert Pike
Topics: Writing

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
Albert Pike

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.
Albert Pike
Topics: Service

Everywhere in the universe, what we call life and movement results from a continual conflict of forces or impulses. Whenever that active antagonism ceases, the immobility and inertia, which are death, result.
Albert Pike

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Albert Pike
Topics: Kindness

From the doctrine of the two Principles, Active and Passive, grew that of the Universe, animated by a Principle of Eternal Life, and by a Universal Soul, from which every isolated and temporary being received at its birth an emanation, which, at the death of such being, returned to its source.
Albert Pike

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Albert Pike
Topics: Faith

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the greater of these is the doing.
Albert Pike
Topics: Action

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 commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert Pike
Topics: Adversity

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