All those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world have not any subsistence without a mind.

And what are these fluxions? May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities?

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

All is number.

-- Pythagoras

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

-- Parmenides

Philosophy is the knowledge of beings qua beings.

-- Farabi

I wish I had been born blind and then recovered my sight, so I could paint without knowing what the objects before me were.

-- Claude Monet

All determination is negation.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

Exactitude is not truth.

-- Henri Matisse