God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
I don’t care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
I who am in the night will move into the day.
Nature is none other than God in all things.
They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .