For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

God ever geometrizes.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

Excellent things are rare.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.