Metaphysics is a science.
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.