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An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

Never confuse movement with action.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?