Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.