Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.