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.

Everything that is capable of turning back upon itself is incorporeal.

-- Porphyry

Every unity either participates in the One or is itself the One.

-- Proclus

All is number.

-- Pythagoras

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

-- Parmenides

There is no envy in the good.

-- Plato

Before heaven and earth existed, there was, ultimately, principle (li) first.

-- Zhu Xi