Words worth keeping

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.