To love our neighbour as ourselves 

is such a truth for regulating human society, 

that by that alone 

one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Everything in writing begins with language. 

Language begins with listening.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds 

as optics is the geometry of light.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. 

What he is, 

as a sensitive instrument 

responsive to the world's beauty, 

is everything!

We first make our habits, 

and then our habits make us.

In science, 

the credit goes 

to the man who convinces the world, 

not to whom the idea first occurs.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility 

is the most far-reaching consequence 

of submission to authority.

The world is given to me only once, 

not one existing and one perceived. 

Subject and object are only one. 

The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down 

as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, 

for this barrier does not exist.

You don't understand anything until 

you learn it more than one way.

The sciences are being held back 

by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, 

maintained by powerful taboos. 

I believe that the sciences will be regenerated 

when they are set free.

Ring out the false, 

ring in the true.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, 

and makes familiar objects be 

as if they were not familiar.

Truth 

uncompromisingly told 

will always have its ragged edges.