Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.