I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

Until I have learned how to express myself as a human, I will not consider speaking as a god.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.

My regular school didn't know what to do with me!

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

Try not to confuse longevity with a job well done.