All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

The first great law is to obey.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby