Either everything in man can be traced as a development from below, or something must come from above. There is no avoiding that dilemma: you must be either a naturalist or a supernaturalist.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go

I could see nothing behind that child's eye. / I have seen eyes in the street / Trying to peer through lighted shutters, / And a crab one afternoon in a pool, / An old crab with barnacles on his back, / Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm [that they cause] does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.

Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates..

The journey not the arrival matters.

You have gone through life in sleep, Never woken to the nightmare. I tell you, life would be unendurable If you were wide awake.

Each way means loneliness – and communion.