The most beautiful world is always entered through the imagination.
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across a thousand miles and all the years we have lived.
More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Faith is a mockery if it teaches us not that we may construct a world unspeakably more complete and beautiful than the material world.
