There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

What we expect, that we find.