If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'