Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its 'collective' manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each person who comes into contact with a ...
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature. Think of your ordinary emotional, thought-ridden self as a block of ice...
The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that re...
The founder of a religion must be able to turn water into wine -- cure with a word the blind and lame, and raise with a simple touch the dead to life. It was necessary for him to demonstrate to the satisfaction of his barbarian disciple, that he was ...
Order is heaven's first law.
There is no reality -- only our own order imposed on everything.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
I appreciate the gesture, but you don't have to undress in order to apologize
You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.
In order to receive in abundance ... give in abundance!
Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.
This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.
But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.
Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
