Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

The true object of all human life is play. 

Earth is a task garden; 

heaven is a playground.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. 

The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts 

are already contained in our system. 

In false theories, the contrary is the case.

Everything lives and lasts 

by the inner necessity of its being, 

by its own nature's need.

There are many truths 

of which the full meaning 

cannot be realised 

until personal experience 

has brought it home.

What sort of philosophy one chooses 

depends on 

what sort of person one is.

In all affairs 

it's a healthy thing 

now and then 

to hang a question mark 

on the things you have long taken for granted.

Set up a situation 

that presents you with something 

slightly beyond your reach.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. 

And there is nobody watching.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Every beloved object is the centre point of a paradise.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

We do not write in order to be understood; 

we write in order to understand.

Hero-worship is strongest 

where there is least regard for human freedom.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

We are, in fact, productions of this earth.

We are, as it were, its organs.

Our eyes are the eyes of this earth;

our knowledge is the earth's knowledge.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience 

but a defining framework for it.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

The true function of philosophy 

is to educate us in the principles of reasoning 

and not to put an end to further reasoning 

by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

It's all in the mind, you know.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Ever tried. 

Ever failed. 

No matter. 

Try Again. 

Fail again. 

Fail better.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

We would be in a nasty position indeed 

if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Just living is not enough... 

one must have sunshine, 

freedom, 

and a little flower.

It is not enough to have a good mind; 

the main thing is to use it well.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, 

but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True 

only in the general character of an epoch.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Rejoice in the things that are present; 

all else is beyond thee.

Look deep into nature, 

and then you will understand everything better.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, 

if it produce nothing useful to the world, 

seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

There can be no passion, 

and by consequence no love, 

where there is not imagination.

Reality is that which, 

when you stop believing in it, 

doesn't go away.

Sit in reverie 

and watch the changing colour of the waves 

that break upon the idle seashore 

of the mind.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

To remember where you come from 

is part of where you're going.

The centre that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.