Nature does not make leaps.

Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

It's not love if it hurts.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.