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.
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it’s only becasue it doesn’t know that the fire can consume it.
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.