The writer must believe that what he is doing
is the most important thing in the world. 

And he must hold to this illusion 

even when he knows it is not true.

One has to go beyond the mind 

to experience the spiritual bliss 

of desirelessness.

An artist, 

under pain of oblivion, 

must have confidence in himself, 

and listen only to his real master: 

Nature.

The more unintelligent a man is, 

the less mysterious existence seems to him.

You owe it to all of us 

to get on with what you're good at.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

I think it will be found that experience, 

the true source and foundation of all knowledge, 

invariably confirms its truth.

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free 

so as to give up any hypothesis, 

however much beloved 

(and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), 

as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

If you accept your limitations

 you go beyond them.

Let us be moral. 

Let us contemplate existence.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Better pass boldly into that other world, 

in the full glory of some passion, 

than fade and wither dismally with age.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.