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.

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

The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

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

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

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