New Quotations in English
Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
I leave everything: pretty orchards,
And dark forests, and the bright meadows,
And take with me only dear songs.
My actions are my only true belongings.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The absence of touch is seemingly one of the most marked developmental stressors that we can suffer.
In a world of stressful lack of control, an amazing source of control we all have is the ability to make the world a better place, one act at a time.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged.
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Space and duration are one.
When we cover a piece of paper with doodles, when a child arranges colorful pebbles on his mud pie, or when we plant flowers in our gardens, one quality is common to all of these quite different activities, namely the enrichment of the outer world by the addition of perceptual elements.
Child, we are all, to some extent, horses.
To be a poet is to have a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
