There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

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.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

The difference between the right spouse and the wrong spouse is the difference between a soul mate and a cell mate.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

Money can buy many things. Even power.