Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

See now the power of truth.

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.