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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. - [Growth] Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery. - [Philosophy] Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. - [Art] Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. - [Chaos] Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood. - [Confusion] Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music--the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interest people. Forget yourself. - [Life] Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. - [Vision] If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. - [Belief] In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. - [Ignorance] Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist--I stand fast. - [Infinite] Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. - [Life] Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. - [Music] The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely divinely aware. - [Life] The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way. - [Leaders] We create our fate every day we live. - [Fate] What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs. - [Belief] Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. - [Force] In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life [Difficulties] Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. - Tropic of Cancer [Knowledge] I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead. - Tropic of Cancer [Books (First Lines)] Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. - Tropic of Capricorn [Books (First Lines)]
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