“One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.”

Nature is a petrified magic city.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.

Character is perfectly educated will.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

I’ve always been very tied to language.

At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It’s such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

Words hold little scope, for a love that stretches far beyond the limitations of language.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality…

Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.