The influence of a vital person vitalises … . 

The world without spirit is a wasteland.

An idea, like a ghost, 

must be spoken to a little 

before it will explain itself.

Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases 

and the duty to do it at least once. 

No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. 

No way of doing things is beyond improvement.

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

Everything has beauty, 

but not everyone sees it.

I am the wilderness lost in man

I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. 

I shall conquer untruth by truth. 

And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

You are gone 

and I am with you: 

this will never come again.

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organised society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

All the gods,

all the heavens,

all the hells

are in you.

There's a story in an ancient play about birds called The Birds

And it's a short story from before the world began

From a time when there was no earth, no land.

Only air and birds everywhere.

But the thing was there was no place to land.

Because there was no land.

So they just circled around and around.

Because this was before the world began.

And the sound was deafening. Songbirds were everywhere.

Billions and billions and billions of birds.

And one of these birds was a lark and one day her father died.

And this was a really big problem because what should they do with the body?

There was no place to put the body because there was no earth.

And finally the lark had a solution.

She decided to bury her father in the back of her own head.

And this was the beginning of memory.

Because before this no one could remember a thing.

They were just constantly flying in circles.

Constantly flying in huge circles.

A silk mist on a fallen day

I can see for miles and miles and miles

The wind is cold it hasn't got a lot to say

Fields of little moments to take with me

I dare not say a word.

And none of you stand so tall

Pink moon gonna get ye all

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, 

a metaphor for a proof, 

a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, 

and oneself for an oracle, 

is inborn in us.

We are moved to tears by a beautiful piece of music

and we describe the performance as 'magical'.

We gaze up at the stars on a dark night with no moon and no city lights

and, breathless with joy, we say the sight is 'pure magic'.

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realisations. 

Mythologies are not invented; they are found. 

You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. 

Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

In my end is my beginning.

When the bird has flown

Got no-one to call your own

Got no place to call your home

When the bird has flown

It is in love that we are made;

In love we disappear.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

I hear, I know.
I see, I remember.
I do, I understand.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. 

Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. 

A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: 

he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Onward and onward and onward I go

Where no man before me bothered to go.

I can't go back to yesterday 

because I was a different person then.

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. 

Laughter when it is out of control: 

when it screams and stamps its feet, 

and sets the bells jangling in the next town. 

Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

An honest man is always a child.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is 

an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; 

we borrow it from our children.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — 

the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science

Tell me my friend my friend 

Tell me with love

Dreams that roam between truth and untruth

Memories that become monstrous lies

And I know from her eyes 

and I know from her smile 

that tonight will be fine, 

will be fine, will be fine, will be fine 

for a while.

the imagery of myth is the imagery through which our own nature 

communicates with our consciousness …

Tipped off balance we fall like light

We land on water in this transitory life.

Kindness it is
that brings forth kindness
always.