How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but whether they have an absolute existence, distinct from being perceived by God, and exterior to all minds.

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