Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.