The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

The brain is wider than the sky.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Life is our dictionary.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.