There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Baby, if you let me take you out of here, I’ll give the word pleasure a whole new meaning." - Drew Evans

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?

Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.

All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.