It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

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.

Love was the most savage monster of all.

Confusion is still better than conviction in the wrong!!!!

Every failure was a stepping stone towards a greater success.

Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.

The supernatural does not exist.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.