In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

Otherness cannot be a form. For to alter is to deform rather than to form. Therefore, that which is seen in different things can also be seen in and of itself without otherness, since otherness did not give being to it.

When Eternity is considered to be the Beginning, then our speaking of the Beginning of the Begun is nothing but our speaking of the Eternity of the Eternal or our speaking of the Eternity of the Begun.

Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.

The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.