Ramon Llull

"Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth."

"If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good."

"Tota dona val mes quan letra apren"

"Ramon, while still a young man and Seneschal to the King of Majorca, was very given to composing worthless songs and poems and to doing other licentious things. One night he was sitting beside his bed, about to compose and write in his vulgar tongue a song to a lady whom he loved with a foolish love; and as he began to write this song, he looked to his right and saw our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross, as if suspended in mid-air"

"Der menschliche Intellekt hat an sich die Natur des Erkennens, denn das Erkennen ist seine Tätigkeit."

"Der Freund sehnte sich nach Einsamkeit. Um allein zu sein, suchte er die Gesellschaft seines Geliebten. Mit ihm ist er allein inmitten der Leute."