“There is one basic cause of all effects.”

The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.

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.

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.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,

Divinity reveals herself in all things.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

There is no law governing all things.

The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

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.

Time takes all and gives all

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.

There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.

Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.

The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.

The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.