Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

The present is great with the future.