Cut the pie any way you like, 'meanings' just ain't in the head.

It is part of the nature of philosophy that there are some questions that cannot be put off.

It is the nature of intelligence to outrun previous formulations of itself.

Everything that is capable of turning back upon itself is incorporeal.

-- Porphyry

Every unity either participates in the One or is itself the One.

-- Proclus

All is number.

-- Pythagoras

You will not find thinking apart from Being, in which it is expressed.

-- Parmenides

There is no envy in the good.

-- Plato

Before heaven and earth existed, there was, ultimately, principle (li) first.

-- Zhu Xi