There are times 

when the air that floats between mortals 

becomes, 

in its stillness and silence, 

as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

Truth is the daughter of time, 

and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

The trick is in what one emphasises. 

We either make ourselves miserable, 

or we make ourselves happy. 

The amount of work is the same.

Then there is the further question of 

what is the relationship of thinking to reality. 

As careful attention shows, 

thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. 

Just like everyone else.

One's friends are that part of the human race 

with which one can be human.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Give me the liberty 

to know, 

to utter, 

and to argue freely 

according to conscience, 

above all liberties.

The aura given out by a person or object 

is as much a part of them 

as their flesh.

 

It is generally believed 

that our science is empirical 

and that we draw our concepts 

and our mathematical constructs 

from the empirical data. 

If this were the whole truth, 

we should, when entering into a new field, 

introduce only such quantities 

as can directly be observed, 

and formulate natural laws 

only by means of these quantities.

The still point follows the last thing 

and precedes the next thing. 

It is the aperture of perception 

when past and future both hold the baton of our awareness. 

It reverberates with memory and foreknowledge, 

echoing into eternity.

And while I stood there 

I saw more than I can tell 

and I understood more than I saw; 

for I was seeing 

in a sacred manner 

the shapes of all things in the spirit, 

and the shape of all shapes 

as they must live together 

like one being.

 

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, 

but the form of every virtue at the testing point.