Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.