The field cannot be seen from within the field.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.