If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.