Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.