What we don't understand we don't possess.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion