We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.