There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.