Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.