The field cannot be seen from within the field.

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.