Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

I believe in being an innovator.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.