Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.