Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.