Keep the imagination sane — that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)

Keep the imagination sane — that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word. Jeanne Guyon (1648 – 1717)
The first and last thing which is required of genius is the love of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
Every mind seems capable of entertaining a certain quantity of happiness, which no institutions can increase, no circumstances alter, and entirely independent of fortune. Oliver Goldsmith (circa 1728 – 1774)
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so: for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed. William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830)
In general we must not wish for the disappearance of any of our troubles, but grace to transform them. Simone Weil (1909 – 1943)
Freedom is a new religion. Heinrich Heine (1797 – 1856)
Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. […]
We can only cure our tendency downwards by the power that leads upwards… by a total conversion to the divine law. Hierocles Of Alexandria (circa 430 A.D.)
It is right to yield to the truth. Horace (65 B.C.E. – 8 B.C.E.)