There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6 000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

Tsze-Kung asked "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others".

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century, than in all of previous human history.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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