I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

Be with your loved ones and feed your soul with the deep connections that money can't buy. Your bank richness will never amount to the richness of love.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.

Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.

I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] seem very, very grounded. They're getting down to the film like they did last time.