"They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and i…"

"Within me I had a dearth of that inner food which is thyself, my God—although that dearth caused me no hunger. And I …"

"When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it w…"

"Purification of the soul ... consists in scorning the pleasures that arise through the senses, in not feasting the ey…"

"That neither our Thoughts, nor Passions, nor Ideas formed by the Imagination, exist without the Mind, is what every B…"

"If someone asks us which of these is more perfect, intellect or sense, the intelligible or the sensible, we shall pro…"

"The cause of Sense, is the Externall Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediatl…"

"It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But…"

"People are plagued by their senses if they act without restraint to attain their desires. ... If one is dragged along…"

"Such and so many are the notions, then, which we have about Wisdom and the wise. Now of these characteristics that of…"