God, or Nature.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

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

-- Parmenides

All is number.

-- Pythagoras

There is no envy in the good.

-- Plato

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

-- Immanuel Kant

Philosophy is the knowledge of beings qua beings.

-- Farabi

Whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver.

-- Thomas Aquinas