Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.