Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.