The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.