If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

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.

..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Find the good and celebrate it.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.