Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong