“Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”

Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Music conveys to us itself!

Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Roughly speaking: objects are colorless.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

To believe in God is to see that life has meaning

I am my world.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

You don’t have to try to fix anyone. You just have to love them.

Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?

The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It’s all in the mind.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.

Sometimes it is the spider that feels trapped in the very web she weaves.