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

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

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

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

The only thing that is constant is change.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.