Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.
The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.
Wisdom is infused into every form.
... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.
Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.
I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be.
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.
When we really want to master anything, we must enter into the spirit of it. And when we enter into the spirit of something, what we're really doing is reproducing in ourselves the same qualities that whoever created it had.
