The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, 

who obeys any authority, 

but that of reason.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. 

It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. 

The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. 

The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. 

It is the measles of mankind.

Reason is the natural order of truth; 

but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Come forth into the light of things, 

let nature be your teacher.

Our species needs, 

and deserves, 

a citizenry with minds wide awake 

and a basic understanding 

of how the world works.

The eye sees 

what it brings the power to see.

Wherever you go, 

go with all your heart.

The past is what you remember, 

imagine you remember, 

convince yourself you remember, 

or pretend you remember.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The greater danger for most of us lies 

not in setting our aim too high 

and falling short; 

but in setting our aim too low, 

and achieving our mark.

He who cannot do what he wants,

let him want what he can do.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Beauty, 

whether moral or natural, 

is felt, more properly 

than perceived.

What is it that really makes us, us? 

It's our collective intelligence. 

It's our ability to write things down, 

our language and our consciousness.