“And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.”

“The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.”

“The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if concepts”

“Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.”

“Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.”

“Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.”