Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.