"We make idols of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship."

"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance."

"Man is so great that his greatness even manifests itself in knowing himself to be miserable."

"Man is full of desires: he loves all that he can obtain, but he does not know how to obtain it."

"Imagination decides everything."