But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.

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.

Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go… you are a part of everything.

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

How can I make you the vessel of the Void? What kind of love would that be?""The greatest kind of all.

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules. The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.