It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.