For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move otherwise than in a straight line. The rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are of two kinds, either centrifugal, viz., the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal, viz., the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction.

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.