A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Fear first created the gods.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.