“A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.”

“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”

“When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.”

“I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?”

“As I got warmed up and felt perfectly at home in talk I heard myself boasting lying exaggerating. Oh not deliberately far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow...”

“We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”

“If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.”