“As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.”

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

It is in the nature of water … to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; … it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

A horse is simply a horse.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men’s opinions in which rests no true belief.

You can’t lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

A love that demands love will burn the very essence of what once made it pure.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

The world kept breaking you and here you are- still soft, still loving, how strong of you to maintain your magic in a world where everyone loses their essence.