Every truth has two sides; 

it is as well to look at both, 

before we commit ourselves to either.

You forget that the fruits belong to all 

and that the land belongs to no one.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life 

gives it the appearance of being infinite.

On the spiritual theory, 

man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind 

intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, 

both of which are developed in 

and by means of 

a material organism.

For man, 

as for flower 

and beast 

and bird, 

the supreme triumph 

is to be 

most vividly, 

most perfectly 

alive.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

For both faith and want of faith 

have destroyed men alike.

Your soul is a dark forest. 

But the trees are of a particular species, 

they are genealogical trees.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns 

in order to look at things in a different way.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. 

Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. 

Never try to correct them. 

On the contrary: rationalise them, understand them thoroughly. 

After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Integrity without knowledge 

is weak and useless, 

and knowledge without integrity 

is dangerous and dreadful.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

The real voyage of discovery consists 

not in seeking new landscapes, 

but in having new eyes.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas 

but the march of events.

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way 

may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Trust not too much to appearances.

The debt we owe 

to the play of imagination 

is incalculable.

Meaning is what essence becomes 

when it is divorced from the object of reference 

and wedded to the word.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, 

in both science and religion, 

by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; 

construed objectively in this way, 

consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, 

becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, 

by virtue of consciousness, 

to be transcendent.

Every word or concept, 

clear as it may seem to be, 

has only a limited range of applicability.

Painting is silent poetry, 

and poetry is painting that speaks.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

The social, as opposed to the mystical function of a mythology, 

is not to open the mind, but to enclose it: 

to bind a local people together in mutual support 

by offering images that awaken the heart 

to recognitions of commonality, 

without allowing these to escape the monadic compound.

The seat of the soul is there,

where the outer and inner worlds meet

The life of a mythology derives from 

the vitality of is symbols as metaphors 

delivering, not simply the idea, 

but a sense of actual participation 

in such a realisation of transcendence, infinity and abundance.

The best lack all conviction, 

while the worst

are full of passionate intensity

Individuation is but an appearance in a field of space and time,

these being the conditioning forms

through which my cognitive faculties

apprehend their objects.

They exist, that is to say,

only in my mental representation.

My own true inner being 

actually exists

in every living creature

as truly and immediately

as known to my consciousness

only in myself.

The progress of science is strewn, 

like an ancient desert trail, 

with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories 

which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Like everything metaphysical 

the harmony between thought and reality 

is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Not ignorance, 

but ignorance of ignorance, 

is the death of knowledge.

Hide our ignorance as we will, 

an evening of wine soon reveals it.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, 

the darkness must be present.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, 

but does not make the conclusion certain, 

unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, 

making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Men create the gods in their own image.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

The conventional view 

serves to protect us 

from the painful job 

of thinking.

To be wholly devoted 

to some intellectual exercise 

is to have succeeded in life.

Friends are as companions on a journey, 

who ought to aid each other 

to persevere in the road to a happier life.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes 

and not in the hand, 

for the hands execute, 

but the eye judges.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, 

but this flash is everything.