Inspirational quotes by Thomas Carlyle, H. Rider Haggard, and U. G. Krishnamurti

“We sit in a boundless Phantasmagoria and Dream-grotto. ...Which of [our] Philosophical Systems is other than a dream theorem; a net quotient, confidently given out, where divisor and dividend are both unknown? ...This Dreaming, this Somnabulism is what we on Earth call life; wherein the most indeed undoubtedly wander, as if they knew right hand from left; yet they only are wise who know that they know nothing.”  Thomas Carlyle (Sartor Restorus, p40)

"Oh, that it might be ours to rest year by year upon that high level of the heart to which at times we momentarily attain! Oh, that we could shake loose the prisoned pinions of the soul and soar to that superior point, whence, like to some traveler looking out through space from Darrien's giddiest peak, we might gaze with the spiritual eyes of noble thoughts into deep Infinity! ...to be done forever with these earthly thoughts... to rest on high wrapped for ever in the brightness of our better selves, that even now shines in us as fire faintly shines within those lurid balls, and lay down our littleness in that wide glory of our dreams, that invisible but surrounding good, from which all truth and beauty comes!" H. Rider Haggard (SHE, p119)

“If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has taught, felt, and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place. …All the accumulated knowledge, experience, and suffering of mankind is inside of you. You must build a huge bonfire within you. …Everything that mankind has thought and experienced must go. …All that came before is negated in that fire.” U.G. Krishnamurti (Mind is a Myth, p89,99,42,58)

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These inspirational quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.