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.

We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with their particular nature. To this end they are endowed with suitable faculties and activities; and by means of these there is in them a discernment that is natural and in keeping with the purpose of their knowledge, which ensures their natural inclination serving its purpose and being able to reach its fulfilment in that object towards which it is attracted by the weight of its own nature.

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.

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

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

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

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.