“I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.”

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

God is not a dead equation!

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still

Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.

You know, I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person, he doesn’t relate to the person.

All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

When I’m playing the 1-guard, I’m kind of seeing everything that’s going on.

It’s always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone’s seen the last one.

We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.