That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

A horse is simply a horse.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.