Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

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.

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.

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

You have to take everything as it comes.

My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

The worst dog gets the best bone.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.