The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.