Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

In everything, there is a share of everything

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the law is being enforced.

Don't you open your mouth about the best!

So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.