One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.