Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that read more

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar read more

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is read more

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work read more

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.