"Do not seek the truth; simply cease cherishing illusions."

"Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe."

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties – this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.

Belief is not merely an idea that the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.