 In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. |
| Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. |
| One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. |
| Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. |
| Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. |
| The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. |
| Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. |
| The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. |
| The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. |
| What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs. |
| True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. |
| The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. |
| One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. |
| I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. |
| If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. |
| One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. |
| The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. |
| One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. |
| The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. |
| The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. |
