All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.

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

All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region, but rather would say, he is the highest possible beauty of the most lucid and perfect color.

The intellect alone has an eye for viewing an essence, which it cannot see except in the true Cause, which is the Fount of all desire. Moreover, since all things seek to exist, then in all things there is desire from the Fount-of-desire, wherein being and desire coincide in the Same.

Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.