Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it - since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate. Now from this relation, from the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body's experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
Become vision itself.
Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.
The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.
I never wanted to be a playwright.