“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.”
“Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.”
“Mind is God and God is mind”
“All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.”
“In everything, there is a share of everything.”
“All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.”
“There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.”
“Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.”
“The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.”
“The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.”
“The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”
“It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.”
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