If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?