once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

That which has no limitations, has no form.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.