A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.