For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.

God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.

Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.

In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

We must teach our people the principle of trust

He made a sound close to a growl before speaking. “Why do you resist my assistance?”She stopped walking and faced him. “Because I don't like you.

Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.

I would ask that people judge us, judge me, based on our record, based on what we actually did.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.