Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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.