Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.