Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 55
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Source: Philosophy of Education, p. 86.
“The fruit of the tree of knowledge, always drives man from some paradise or other.”
"The Idea of Progress" http://books.google.com/books?id=TbgYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+fruit+of+the+tree+of+knowledge+always+drives+man+from+some+paradise+or+other%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage, Romanes Lecture (27 May 1920), reprinted in Outspoken Essays: Second Series (1922)
“The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from.”
The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)
Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
FitzGerald's first edition (1859).
The Rubaiyat (1120)
"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
“Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.”
Aphorism #115
Interglacial (2004)
