The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.