In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.