Why Are Things As They Are And

The Soul Of The Newly Born Baby Is Marked For Life By The Pattern Of The Stars At The Moment It Comes Into The World, Unconsciously Remembers It, And Remains Sensitive To The Return Of Configurations Of A Similar Kind.

The Radius Vector Describes Equal Areas In Equal Times.

[god] Is The Kind Creator Who Brought Forth Nature Out Of Nothing.

We Do Not Ask What Hope Of Gain Makes A Little Bird Warble, Since We Know That It Takes Delight In Singing Because It Is For That Very Singing That The Bird Was Made, So There Is No Need To Ask Why The Human Mind Undertakes Such Toil In Seeking Out These Secrets Of The Heavens. ... And Just As Other Animals, And The Human Body, Are Sustained By Food And Drink, So The Very Spirit Of Man, Which Is Something Distinct From Man, Is Nourished, Is Increased, And In A Sense Grows Up On This Diet Of Knowledge, And Is More Like The Dead Than The Living If It Is Touched By No Desire For These Things.

When Things Are In Order, If The Cause Of The Orderliness Cannot Be Deduced From The Motion Of The Elements Or From The Composition Of Matter, It Is Quite Possibly A Cause Possessing A Mind.