The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.

The goal to be reached is the mind's insight into what knowing is. Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting the…

A party first truly shows itself to have won the victory when it breaks up into two parties: for so it proves that it contains in itself the principle with whi…

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of informa…