“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
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“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.”
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
Source: Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles
Source: The Secret
“Distance lends enchantment to the view.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
Source: In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton
Source: On the Road
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”
Source: Selected Letters, 1957-1969
“People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”
“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”
Source: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
“Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.”