The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

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.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.

I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.