Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.