One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

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.

Human welfare depends on healthy ecosystems.

The group with it's impurities is better than sectarianism with it's purity.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.

Don't lie to the girl of your life for the hoe of the night

I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.

I have never felt any pain that I can remember.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!