"You do not really understand something unless..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”

“Politics is more difficult than physics.”

“We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.”

“If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.”

“Listening is an important key to HEARING.”

“Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?”

“Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.”