“Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.”

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.

One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

In the 13 months I’ve been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they’re forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.

Whenever there is a big game and people don’t think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.

I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.