I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.