philosophy

"God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you."

"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."

"Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery."

"Apakah seorang pencari keheningan adalah si mulia? ataukah si pengecut yang tidak berani menghadapi masalah dunia?"

"There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb."

"Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them."

"Съвестта е онзи глас Божий в нас, онова огледало, в което ние се оглеждаме и виждаме своите недостатъци."

"Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers,"possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go."

"Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano."

"Travel is never a matter of money but of courage"

"The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything."

"Do your actions define who you are, or does your purpose define why you are?"

"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses."

"When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms"penetrate my eye."

"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

"Hidden [10w] A woman is an iceberg;we see less than 10%."

"We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness."

"Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others."

"You are a whole lot better today than yesterday."

"Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back."