Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.
Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.
So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.
There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.
Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.
Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive.
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.
Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.