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“Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.”
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“Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning.”
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“The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”
Source : Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 5
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“Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.”
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“I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.”
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“I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible Spirit, had a regular civil job, comfort, wealth then ... Going to Paris in 1907 I oppositely standed alone in front of millions with only the result of the divine providence, and I beat the vanity of the world hollow, but I haven't killed 10 million people, only sobered them. I haven't made commercials from things, because I didn't care for the pedlar's press; I retired from the world instead, going to the top of the Lebanons, and I painted cedars.”
Source : "The Positivum". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, written between 1910-1920.
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“Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.”
Source : FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Aug 09, 2013 
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“They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.”
