I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I….
As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of God la….
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifesta….
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that….
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any wors….
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they underst….
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost..
Every artist is an unhappy lover..
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and….
We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce numerical results which….
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be r….
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi lite….
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as….
Laughter... the most civilized music in the world..
I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophica….
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a….
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necess….
Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflect….
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he ….
Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time,….
It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and other….