Ancient Quote by Laozi

“The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, All we can do is describe…

— Lao Tzu

An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

— Geza Vermes

No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be…

— Felix Mendelssohn

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

“The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does…

— Milan Kundera

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

— Matthew Syed

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

— Flannery O'Connor

“One of the old Hermetic Masters wrote, long ages ago: "He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well…

— Three Initiates

In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

— Frederick Lenz

“I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well…

— Jonathan Swift

“Being profound and seeming profound.— Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of…

— Samuel Johnson