Appearances Are A Glimpse Of The Unseen.

The Sun Provides The Moon With Its Brightness.

And Since The Portions Of The Great And The Small Are Equal In Number, So Too All Things Would Be In Everything. Nor Is It Possible That They Should Exist Apart, But All Things Have A Portion Of Everything.

The Greeks Are Wrong To Recognize Coming Into Being And Perishing; For Nothing Comes Into Being Nor Perishes, But Is Rather Compounded Or Dissolved From Things That Are. So They Would Be Right To Call Coming Into Being Composition And Perishing Dissolution.

Wrongly Do The Greeks Suppose That Aught Begins Or Ceases To Be; For Nothing Comes Into Being Or Is Destroyed; But All Is An Aggregation Or Secretion Of Preexisting Things; So That All Becoming Might More Correctly Be Called Becoming Mixed, And All Corruption, Becoming Separate.

Conclusions From Observations Are Unreliable, Only The Mind Can Come Nearer To To The Truth. Thus, In Some Ways, Philosophy Is More Important Than Science.