Objectively, we know nothing at all. Any system of intellectual thought, whether it be science, logic, religion or philosophy, is based on certain fundamental ideas or axioms which are assumed but which cannot be proven. This is the grave of all positivism.

Doubt transports [you] to the truth. Who does not doubt fails to inquire. Who does not inquire fails to gain insight. Without insight, you remain blind and perplexed.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

This very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage. It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Mans I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create

Some [Erotes] shoot at souls with transcendent arrows so that, receiving the spiritual goads of desire, they may long to see the fiery courts.