Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

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.

...education has always meant the initiation of the young into the social and spiritual inheritance of the community: in other words, education has meant the transmission of culture.

Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.