The time you enjoy wasting 

is not wasted time.

The first step to participation in the destiny of humanity today, 

which is neither of this folk nor of that, 

but of the whole population of the globe, 

is to recognise every such local image of a god 

as but one of many thousands, millions, even perhaps billions, 

of locally useful symbolisations 

of that same mystery 

beyond sight or thought 

which our teachers have taught us to seek 

in their god alone.

Nationalism is power hunger 

tempered by self-deception.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded 

rather schematically 

as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, 

which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Truth is so obscure in these times, 

and falsehood so established, 

that, unless we love the truth, 

we cannot know it.

He who wonders discovers 

that this in itself is wonder.

The supreme question 

about a work of art 

is 

out of how deep a life 

does it spring.

Think like a wise man 

but communicate in the language of the people.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, 

the clearer we should see through it.

Let him that would move the world 

first move himself.

But what is happiness 

except the simple harmony 

between a man and the life he leads?

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. 

That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

The only thing that can save the world 

is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. 

That's what poetry does.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy 

is in the eyes of others 

only a green thing that stands in the way. 

Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... 

and some scarce see nature at all. 

But to the eyes of the man of imagination, 

nature is imagination itself.