Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.