Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.
It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.