Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

To be is to be perceived