Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

William Butler Yeats

I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

Myself I must remake.

Myself I must remake.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.