It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

There is a world of created beings - living things, animals, entelechies, and souls - in the least part of matter.... Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.