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.

For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.

God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.

Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.

Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.

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