Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Your happiness depends on you alone.