The good which a wise man seeks, the wise man is.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.
The mind, both in so far as it understands, and in so far as it imagines, is passive.
He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.
The highest virtue is to lead others to the understanding of truth.
No one's actions can be completely understood unless they are seen in the context of that person's life as a whole.
Peace is the highest good, because it is the state in which the mind is most fully in accord with its nature.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
The more you struggle to live, the less you live.
Insofar as a thing is in harmony with our nature, it is necessarily good.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
智者寻求的善,就是智者。
人类能够达到的最高活动是为了理解而学习,因为理解就是自由。