Quote by Ferdinand Verbiest

“In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.”

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

“It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.”