Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.