The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.

Things keep their secrets.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.