“Man is a great thing. Everything is written in him, but the veils and darknesses prevent him from reading that knowledge within himself.”

Suggesting that self-knowledge is present but obscured by inner and outer veils · Fihi ma fihi (prose discourse; translation varies)

• Solitude
• Truth

“The craft of the physician is to remove the cause of illness, not merely to treat the symptoms.”

Using healing as an image for addressing the source rather than the surface of a problem · Fihi ma fihi (prose discourse; translation varies)

• Hope
• Truth

“The cause of the world's being is heedlessness; if there were no heedlessness, there would be no world.”

A paradoxical reflection on consciousness, distraction, and existence · Fihi ma fihi (prose discourse; translation varies)

• Mortality
• Truth