He lives well who is well hidden..

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason..

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well..

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves..

God alone is the author of all the motions in the world..

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we exp….

Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best..

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us..

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another..

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th ein….

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible..

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly ….

Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided w….

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed..

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a dir….

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body..

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth..

On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing; and on the other hand I have a distinct….

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis..

Nothing comes out of nothing..

As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measureme….