True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, 

but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Beware of the man 

who works hard to learn something, 

learns it, 

and finds himself 

no wiser than before.

You know those nights, 

when you're sleeping, 

and it's totally dark, 

and absolutely silent, 

and you don't dream, 

and there's only blackness, 

and this is the reason, 

it's because on those nights 

you've gone away. 

On those nights, 

you're in someone else's dream, 

you're busy in someone else's dream.

There will be well-testable theories, 

hardly testable theories, 

and non-testable theories. 

Those which are non-testable 

are of no interest to empirical scientists. 

They may be described as metaphysical.

The only way to deal 

with an unfree world 

is to become so absolutely free 

that your very existence 

is an act of rebellion.

There are also two kinds of truths: 

truth of reasoning and truths of fact. 

Truths of reasoning are necessary 

and their opposite is impossible; 

those of fact are contingent 

and their opposite is possible.

The highest activity a human being can attain 

is learning for understanding, 

because to understand is to be free.

Desultory reading is delightful, 

but to be beneficial, 

our reading must be carefully directed.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, 

the whole aim and end of human existence.

The problems that exist in the world today 

cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Whereas when any of the great mythic imageries 

comes to be read as poetry, as art, as a vehicle 

not of empirical information 

but of experience

— in other words: not as a newspaper —

we find a message of accord,

which, in brief, is that of the living god,

who is not apart, 

but within all

and of no definition.

It is one of the great lessons of our study

that for the vulgar, ill- or uninstructed mind,

myths tend to become history

and there ensues a type of attachment 

to the mere accidents of the local forms

that, on the one hand, 

binds so-called believers into contending groups

and, on the other hand,

deprives them all of the substance of the message

each believes itself alone to have received.

All orthodoxies show this tendency in great or slight degree

and they are consequently mutually opposed.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

The best part of beauty
is that which no picture can express.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; 

the mechanic that would perfect his work 

must first sharpen his tools.