“The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')”
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
“Every degree of power involves a corresponding degree of freedo from good and evil.”
“It is not the degree of 'willing' or 'trying', but the way in which the energy is directed, that is going to make the 'willing' or 'trying' effective.”
“Who is truly anyone? Every person is illusion to some degree.”
“Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.”